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Summary:
"In addition to stories about court proceedings, each case report contains transcriptions of all of the extant newspaper commentary on the case, as well as any accounts of the crime, investigation, and punishment in criminal matters. Where a partial case report has already appeared, or where other relevant documents were published here in the eighteenth century, citations thereto are included in the footnotes. Appendices report significant legal incidents in which no trial court decision in a pending case appeared in the newspapers. These documents shed abundant light on the substantive law and civil and criminal procedure of eighteenth-century America. They also reveal a good deal about the gap between the law on the books and the law in action in that era."-- Publisher's website.
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