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STO STOKES, ANTHONY. A View of the Constitution of tiie Bri- tish Colonies in North America and the West Indies. 8vo. Lon- don. 1783. STONE, JOHN. The Reading upon the Statute of the 13th Eliz., touching Bankrupts. Svo. London. 1695. . The Metropolitan Police Manual, containing a Practical Treatise upon the Acts for Establishing and for Regu- lating the Police Courts in the Metropolis, &c. ; with an Appendix, containing the Acts and Index. 12nio. London. 1839. . The Practice of Petty Sessions, comprising all the Proceedings, as well Ministerial as Judicial, before Justices of the Peace out of Sessions ; with an Appendix of Practical Forms. 5lh ed., revised and enlarged. By W. A. S. Westoby, Esq. 12mo. London. 1844. The Justices' Manual. 3d ed. 12mo. London. 1844. STORY, JOSEPH. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions; with Annotations. Svo. Salem. 1805. 2d ed., with Additions. By B. L. Ohver. Svo. Boston. 1829. The appearance of this volume was opportune and serviceable to the Profession in this country, who had hitherto been obliged to resort to the voluminous books of English Entries for Precedents. The notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special Pleading, at the early age in which this his first attempt at legal authorship was published. "The work gave a new impulse to study in this department of professional learning; and which, after the lapse of forty years, is still resorted to, with all the confidence originally reposed in its safety as a guide." Greenleaf's Dis. 26 ; 2 Month. Anth. 482. . Commentaries on the Law of Bailments ; with Illustrations from the Civil and Foreiojn Law. 4th ed. Svo. Bos- ton. 1846; with Notes. By R. Cliarnock. Svo. London. 1839. The only complete and satisfactory Treatise upon the Law of Bail- ments, is the above work, which completely exhausts the whole learning applicable to the subject. Whatever was to be found in the English and American decisions, whatever the Roman and Continental jurisprudence afforded in illustration of the Law of Bailments, Mr. Justice Story col- lected and combined with surprising industry, and wonderful learning. He investigates each branch of the subject as a distinct and separate 668