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LAU unto." The Reporter Palmer having lent Latch his MS. Reports, the latter excerpted one hundred and twenty Cases from it, though it is pro- bable he did not intend to have them printed, but their publication after his death, by Walpolo, and the subsequent appearance of Palmer in print, disclosed the fraud. Walpole, in the Preface, says : " things which by their native excellences commend themselves, like good wine, need no bush ; by that logic this book would not need so much as the Reporter's name ; or, having that, can need no more ;" yet the American translator says, the Reports " suffered much from not having been cor- rected by the parental hand. The want of the finishing touch is in many parts glaringly conspicuous. This deficiency few publishers presume to correct; I dare not." They are not very accurate or much esteemed. The translator omits the Cases relating to spiritual matters, because they are seldom wanted on this side of the Atlantic ; but his edition contains a good many references taken from "a manuscript of the late Judge Dewey, of this State, (North Carolina,) a gentleman of much reading and studiousness, and their ordinary concomitants, learning and accu- racy." Martin's Pref. to Latch ; Walpole's Pref. ; Pref. to Palmer's Reports ; Wallace's Reporters, xiii., xxxiii., 36. LATROBE, JOHN H. B. The Justices' Practice under the Laws of Maryland. 8vo. Baltimore. 1840. LATHROP, D. W. The Case of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America, before the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; with the Charge of Judge Rogers, the Verdict of the Jury, and the Opinion of Chief Justice Gibson. Svo. Philadelphia. 1839. LAUDER, SIR JOHN. The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from 1678 to 1712 ; containing, also, the Transac- tions of the Privy Council, of the Criminal Court, and Court of Exchequer. 2 vols. fol. Edinburgh. 1759-61. LAUSSAT, A., Jr. An Essay on Equity in Pennsylvania. Svo. Philadelphia. 1826. The ability and learning displayed in this Essay, obtained for its youth- ful author the warmest commendation from the highest sources. Its object is to show the propriety of confining the administration of Lavir and Equity to the same tribunal, as it exists in Pennsylvania. Eunomus, in his third letter to Sir Robert Peel, says : " I cannot cite this tract without rendering the just tribute of praise which is due to it, as the very extraordinary production of a law student, under the age of legal discretion. Although I differ entirely from the main conclusion which it seeks to establish, the sufficiency of Common Law powers for accom- 447