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SAM Hardwicke, and the contributions of the successive editors have very much increased their usefulness. The third volume, puhlishod some time after (he two preceding, is a refuse collection of Cases, which it is thought the Reporter never designed for the press. The Courts have repeatedly denied its authority, and Lord Kenyon says, it is not to be relied on unless corroborated by other books. C. .1. Parsons remarked, that the third volume of Salkeld's Reports was a book of no authority, being a posthumous collection, and consisting only of a com- pilation of such Cases as Salkeld himself considered as unworthy of publication. 8 Mass. 258, n; 4 Dow. & Ry. 531 ; 7 Mod. 2G9 ; 2 East, 8 ; Amb. 12; Andrews, 228; 1 T. R. 380; Brooke, 218. SALMON, THOiMAS. An Abridgment and Critical Review of State Trials, fol. London. 1737. See State Trials. SALTERN, GEORGE. Of the Ancient Lawes of Great Britaine. 4to. London. 1605. SAMPSON, M. B. Criminal Jurisprudence, considered in relation to Cerebral Organization. 2d ed. 8vo. London. 1843. SAMPSON, WILLIAM. An Anniversary Discourse, delivered' before the Historical Society, of New York, (1823 ;) showing the Origin, Progress, Antiquities, Curiosities, and Nature of the Common Law. 8vo. New York. 1824. . Discourse and Correspondence with various learned Jurists, upon the History of the Law ; with the Addition of several Essays, Tracts, and Documents relating to the Subject, compiled and published by P. Thompson. 8vo. Washington. 1826. "Mr. Sampson was the first in our country to fix public attention on the subject of legal reform. In this cause he laboured assiduously for many years, with a more than Beniham zeal. His invectives, however, against the Common Law, were often injudicious, and indiscriminately severe, and liis love of ridicule frequently took the place of prudence, of reason, and of useful learning." Hoff. Leg. Stu. 691. . Sampson against the Philistines, or the Reforma- tion of Law Suits, 2d ed. 8vo. Philadelphia. 1805. . . The Catholic Question in America: Whether a Roman Catholic Clergyman be, in any case, compellable to De- clare the Secrets of Auricular Confession; decided at the Court of General Sessions, in the City of New York. 8vo. New York. 1813. 627