An Essay on Professional Ethics: Second EditionSharswood, George
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An Essay on Professional Ethics: Second Edition
Sharswood, George
Legal ethics -- United States
It will be remarked, that I have not set down in order, any Report
Books; it is not that I undervalue that kind of study. It appears to me
that in his regular reading, the student should constantly resort to and
examine the principal cases referred to and commented upon by his
authors. In this way, he will read them more intelligently, and they
will be better impressed on his memory. Some reports may be read through
continuously; such are Plowden, Hobart, Vernon, and I certainly think,
Johnson's Chancery Reports should be thus read. Smith's Leading Cases is
an excellent reading-book of this kind. The student of Pennsylvania Law
will do well not to omit Binney's Reports. But I assign no particular
place to this kind of study, because I think it may be taken up and laid
aside at intervals, according to the bent of the student's inclination.
When, in any particular part of his course, he finds his regular reading
drags heavily--he has become fagged and tired of a particular
subject--let him turn aside for a week or two, to some approved and
standard Report Book; it will be useful reading, and he will be able to
return refreshed to his proper course.
It would extend this Appendix too much, if I were to go over the
remaining parts of the prescribed plan, with the same particularity as I
have this first and most important branch. It will be sufficient to
indicate merely the books, and the order in which they may be most
profitably read, under each division.
II. PRACTICE, PLEADING, AND EVIDENCE.
The Introduction to Crompton's Practice gives a full account of the
jurisdiction of the courts, and the steps by which it was arrived at.
This book is sometimes called Sellon's Practice, having been arranged by
Mr. Sellon. The fourth part of The Institutes of Lord Coke. Tidd's
Practice. Stephen on Pleading. Saunders' Reports, with Notes by
Williams. Broom's Parties to Actions. Greenleaf on Evidence. Selwyn's
Nisi Prius. Leigh's Nisi Prius. Mitford's Pleading in Equity. Story's
Equity Pleading. Barton's Historical Treatise of a Suit in Equity.
Newland's Chancery Practice. Gresley on Evidence in Equity.
III. CRIMES AND FORFEITURES.
Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown. Foster's Crown Law. Yorke's
Considerations on the Law of Forfeiture for High Treason. The third
part of The Institutes of Lord Coke. Russell on Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Chitty on Criminal Law.
IV. NATURAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Burlamaqui's Natural and Political Law. Grotius de Jure Belli et Pacis.
Rutherford's Institutes. Vattel's Law of Nations. Bynkershoek Questiones
Publici Juris. Wicquefort's Ambassador. Bynkershoek de Foro Legatorum.
McIntosh's Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations.
Wheaton's History of International Law. Wheaton's International Law.
Robinson's Admiralty Reports. Cases in the Supreme Court of the United
States.
V. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
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