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MOL one bookseller to issue five successive improved editions from one im- pression, and that, too, of a book much admired, and extensively circu- lated. Of course, such instances rarely occur. The so-called fifth edition of the Modern Reports, is much to be preferred to its predecessors, because it contains 381 new Cases, 137 of which are published, for the first time, from MSS., and for the additional references and corrections of the editor, which are numerous. In estimating the value of these Re- ports, the improvementsof the known and unknown editors should betaken into account, and npon a close examination we shall find that several of the criticisms upon them were made prior to their present improved con- dition. Perhaps, also, the elder remarks respecting them, in some instances at least, were strongly worded, because the volumes did not bear upon their front the imprimatur of the judges, at a period when such a distinction was serviceable, nay, quite necessary to give currency to a book of Reports. MODERN ENTRIES. See Lilly. MOILE, N. T. State Trials. Specimen of a new ed. 8vo. London. 1838. Moile is the author's nom de guerre, and he thinks some of the richest mines of legal poetry remain still to be explored. " The strong analogy of criminal trials to tragedy, has been ingeniously remarked by my learned friend and competitor, Mr. Jardine ; and the resemblance of many Nisi Prius Cases to comedy, can have hardly escaped the most superfi- cial observer; and something of it is curiously preserved by the Reports, for the benefit of posterity." It has been suggested that the science of jurisprudence might be vastly extended if Reports were done into verse and set to popular music, to be sung. Jesting aside, the State Trials that Mr, Moile has been pleased to furnish the public with, are highly creditable for their truthfulness and harmony of versification. Eccl. Rev, 1839, 385; 21 L. M. 328. MOLESWORTH, ROB. An Essay upon the Law regarding the Registration of Deeds and Conveyances, in Ireland. 8vo. Dublin. 1838. MOLLOY, PHILIP. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, in Ireland, during the time of Lord Chancellor Hart. 2 vols, and Part I. vol. 3. 8vo. Dublin. 1829. MOLLOY, C. Do Jure Maritimo et Navali, or a Treatise of Af- fairs Maritime, and of Commerce. 9lh ed. 2 vols. 8vo. I/Ondon. 1749. Molloy's was, formerly, a standard work upon questions of Maritime Law. That part of his Treatise devoted to Bills of Exchange, is less com- 522