Med. Jur. Medical Jurisprudence. Mees. & Wels. Meeson and Welsby's Reports.

Meigs, R. Meigs's Tennessee Reports. Mer. R. Merivale's Reports. Merl. Quest. Merlin, Questions de Droit. Merl. Répert. Merlin, Répertoire. Merrif. Law of Att. Merrifield's Law of Attorneys.

Merrif. on Costs. Merrif. Law of Costs. Metc. R. Metcalf's Reports.

Metc. & Perk. Dig. Digest of the Deci. sions of the Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the United States. By Theron Metcalf and Jonathan C. Perkins. Mich. Michaelmas.

Mich. Rev. St. Michigan Revised Sta

tutes.

Miles's R. Miles's Reports.

Mill, Civ. Law. Miller's Civil Law. Mill. 1ns. Millar's Elements of the Law relating to Insurances. Sometimes this work is cited Mill. El.

Mill. on Eq. Mort. Miller on Equitable Mortgages.

Minor's Rep. Minor's Alabama Reports, sometimes cited Ala. Rep.

Mireh. on Adv. Mirehead on Advow

sons.

Mirr. Mirror des Justices.
Misso. R. Missouri Reports.

Mitf. Pl. Mitford's Pleadings in Equity. Also cited Redesd. Pl. Redesdale's Pleadings.

Mo. Sir Francis Moore's Reports in the reign of K. Henry VIII., Q. Elizabeth, and K. James.

Mo. & Malk. Moody and Malkin's Reports. In E. C. L. R.

Mo. C. C. Moody's Crown Cases.

Mo. Cas. Moody's Nisi Prius and Crown Cases.

Mod, or Mod. R. Modern Reports.
Mod. Cas. Modern Cases.

Mod. C. L. & E. Modern cases in law and equity. The 8 & 9 Modern Reports are sometimes so cited; the 8th cited as the 1st, and the 9th as the 2d.

Mod Entr. Modern Entries. Mod. Int. Modus Intrandi. Mol. Molloy, De jure Maritimo. Moll. R. Molloy's Chancery Reports. Monr. R. Monroe's Reports. Mont. & Ayrt. Montagu and Ayrton's Reports.

Mont. B. C. Montagu's Bankrupt Cases. Mont. & Bligh. Montagu and Bligh's Cases in Bankruptcy.

Mont. & Chit. Montagu and Chitty's Reports.

Mont. on Comp. Montagu on the law of Composition. Mont. B. L. Montagu on

N. A. Non allocatur.
N. B. Nulla bona.

N. Benl. New Benloe.

N. C. Cas. North Carolina Cases.
N. C. Law. Rep. North Carolina Law
Repository.

N. Chipm. R. N. Chipman's Reports.
N. E. I. Non est inventus.

N. H. Rep. New Hampshire Reports.
N. L. Nelson's edition of Lutwyche's
Reports.

N. L. Non liquet. Vide Ampliation. N. & M. Neville and Manning's Reports.

N. & MC. Nott and M'Cord's Reports. N. P. Nisi Prius.

N. & P. Neville and Perry's Reports.

N. R. or New R. New Reports; the new series, or 4 & 5 Bos. & Pull. Reports are usually cited N. R.

N. S. New Series of the Reports of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

N. Y. R. S. New York Revised Statutes. Nar. Conv. Nares on Convictions. Nels. Ab. Nelson's Abridgment. Nels. Lex Maner. Nelson's Lex Maneriorum.

Nels. Ab. Nelson's Abridgment. Nels. R. Nelson's Reports.

Nem, con.

Nem. dis.

Nemine contradicente, (q. v.)
Nemine dissentiente.

Nev. & Mann. Neville and Manning's Reports.

Nev. & Per. Neville and Perry's Reports. New Benl. Benloe's Reports. Reports in the reign of Henry VIII., Edw. VI., Phil. and Mary, and Elizabeth, and other cases in the times of James and Charles. By William Benloe. See Benl.

New Rep. New Reports. A continua. tion of Bosanquet and Puller's Reports. See B. & P.

Newl. Contr. Newland's Treatise on Contracts.

Newl. Ch. Pr. Newland's Chancery Prac

fice

Newn. Conv. Newnam on Conveyancing. Nich. Adult. Bast. Nicholas on Adulterine Bastardy.

Nient cul. Nient culpable, old French, not guilty.

Nol. P. L. Nolan's Poor Laws.

Nol. R. Nolan's Reports of cases relative to the duty and office of a justice of the peace. Non cul. Non culpabilis, not guilty. North. Northington's Reports. Nott&M Cord. Nott and M'Cord's Reports.

Noo. Novella, the Novels.

Nov. Rec. Novisima Recopilacion de las Leves de España.

Noy's Max.

Noy's Reports.

Noy's Maxims.

O. Benl. Old Benloe.

Noy's R.

O. Bridg. Orlando Bridgman's Reports. O. C. Old Code; so is denominated the Civil Code of Louisiana of 1808.

O. N. B. Old Natura Brevium. Vide Vet. N. B., in the abbreviations, and Old Natura Brevium, in the body of the work.

O. Ni. These letters, which are an abbreviation for oneratur nisi habent sufficientem exonerationem, are according to the practice of the English Exchequer, marked upon each head of a sheriff's account for issues, amerciaments and mean profits. 4 Inst. 116.

Oblig. Obligations.
Observ. Observations.

Of Office. Of. Br. Officina Brevium. Of. Ex. Wentworth's Office of Executors. Ohio R. Ohio Reports.

Olda Oldnall's Welsh Practice.
Onsl. N P. Onslow's Nisi Prius.

Ord. Amst. Ordinance of Amsterdam.

Ord. Antw. Ordinance of Antwerp.
Ord, Bilb. Ordinance of Bilboa.
Ord. Ch. Orders in Chancery.
Ord. Cla. Lord Clarendon's Örders.
VOL. 1.-4.

P. & M. P. & M. c. 4.

Philip and Mary; as, 1 & 2

P. N. P. Peake's Nisi Prius.
Pa. R. Pennsylvania Reports.
P. R. or P. R. C. P. Practical Register
in the Common Pleas.

P. Wms. Peere Williams's Reports.
Paige's R. Paige's Chancery Reports.
Paine's R. Paine's Reports.

Pal. Palmer's Reports.

Pal. Ag. Paley on the Law of Principal and Agent.

Pal. Conv. Paley on Convictions.
Pand. Pandects. Vide Dig.

Par. Paragraph; as, 29 Eliz. cap. 5, par. 21.

Par. & Fonb. M. J. Paris and Fonblanque on Medical Jurisprudence.

Pardess. Pardessus, Cours de Droit Commercial. In this work Pardessus is cited in several ways, namely; Pardes. Dr. Com. part 3, tit. 1, c. 2, s. 3, n. 286, or 2 Pardes. n. 286, which is the same reference.

Park on Dow. Park on Dower. Park, Ins. Park on Insurance. Park. R. Sir Thomas Parker's Reports of cases concerning the revenue, in the Exchequer.

Park. on Ship. Parker on Shipping and Insurance.

Park. Pr. in Ch. Parker's Practice in Chancery.

Parl. Hist. Parliamentary History. Patch on Mortg. Patch's Treatise on the law of Mortgages.

Paul's Par. Off. Paul's Parish Officer.

ports.

Piff. Plaintiff.

Platt on Cov. Platt on the Law of Co

Peckw. E. C. Peckwell's Election Cases. Penn. Bl. Pennsylvania Blackstone, by John Read, Esq.

Penn. R. Pennington's Reports. The Pennsylvania Reports are sometimes cited Penn. R., but more properly, for the sake of distinction, Penna. R.

Penna. Pr. Pennsylvania Practice; also cited Tro. & Hal. Pr. Troubat and Haly's Practice.

Penna. R. Pennsylvania Reports.
Pennsylv. Pennsylvania Reports.
Penult. The last but one.

Per. & Dav. Perry and Davison's Reports.

Per. & Knapp. Perry and Knapp's Elec

tion Cases.

Perk. Perkins on Conveyancing. Perk. Prof. B. Perkin's Profitable Book. Perpig. on Pat. Perpigna on Patents. The full title of this work is, "The French law and practice of patents for inventions, improvements, and importations. By A. Perpigna, A. M. L. B. Barrister in the Royal court of Paris, member of the Society for the encouragement of arts, etc." The work is well written in the English langu age. The author is a French lawyer, and has written another work on the same subject in French.

Pet. Ab. Petersdorff's Abridgment. Pet. Adm. Dec. Peters's Admiralty Decisions.

Pet. on Bail, or Petersd. on Bail. Petersdorff on the law of Bail.

Pet. R. Peters's Supreme Court Reports. Pet. C. C. R. Peters's Circuit Court Reports.

Phil. Ev. Phillips's Evidence. Phil. Ins. Phillips on Insurance. Phil. St. Tr. Phillips's State Trials. · Phillim, or Phillim. E. R. Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Reports. This forms a part of the Eng. Ecclesiastical Reports. Pick. R. Pickering's Reports. Pig. Pigot on Recoveries.

Pike's Rep. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Law and Equity of the State of Arkansas. By Albert Pike. These Reports are cited Ark. Rep.

Pl. Placitum or plea. Pl. or Plow, or

Pol. Pollexfen's Reports.

Poph. Popham's Reports. The cases at the end of Popham's Reports are cited 2 Poph.

Port. R. Porter's Reports.

Poth. Pothier. The numerous works of Pothier are cited by abbreviating his name Poth. and then adding the name of the treatise, the figures generally refer to the number; as Poth. Ob. n. 100; which signifies Pothier's treatise on the law of Obligations, number 100. Poth. du Mar. Pothier du Mariage; Poth. Vente, Pothier Traité de Vente, &c. His Pandects in 24 vols, are cited Poth. Pand, with the book, title, law, &c.

Pott's L. D. Pott's Law Dictionary.

Pow. Powell. Pow. Contr. Powell on Contracts. Pow. Dev. Powell on Devises. Pow. Morig. Powell on Mortgages. Pow. Powers. Powell on Powers.

Poyn. on M. & D. Poynter on the law of Marriage and Divorce.

Pr. Principium. In pr. In principium; in the beginning.

Pr. Ex. Rep. or Price's E. R. Price's Exchequer Reports.

Pr. Reg. Cha. Practical Register in Chancery.

Pr. St. Private Statute. Pr. Stat. Private Statute. Pract. Reg. C. P. Practical Register of the Common Pleas.

Pract. Reg. in Ch. in Chancery.

Practical Register

Prat. on H. & W. Prater on the Law of Husband and Wife.

Pref. Preface.

Prel. Préliminaire.

Prest. Preston Prest. on Est. Preston on Estates. Prest. Als. Tit. Preston's Essay on Abstracts of Title. Prest. on Conv. Preston's Treatise on Conveyancing. Vide 4 Kent Com. 101, note.

Pri. Price's Reports.

Price's Ex. Rep. Price's Exchequer Reports.

Price's Gen. Pr. Price's General Practice.

Prin. Principium, the beginning of a title or law.

Prin. Dec. Printed Decisions.
Priv. Lond. Customs or Privileges of
London.

Proct. Pr. Proctor's Practice.
Puff. Pudendorff's Law of Nature.
Q. Quæstione, in such a Question.

Q. B. Queen's Bench.
Q. t. Qui tam,

Q. Van Weyt. Q. Van Weytsen on Average.

Q. Warr. Quo Warranto; (q. v.) The letters (q. v.) quod vide, which see, refer to the article mentioned immediately before them.

Qu. Quæstione, in such a Question. Qu. claus. freg. Quare clausum fregit. (q. v.)

Quæst. Quæstione, in such a Question.
Quest. Questions.

Quinti Quinto. Year-book, 5 Henry V.
R. resolved, ruled, or repealed.
R. Richard; as, 2 R. 2, c. 1.
RC. Rescriptum.

R. & M. Russell and Mylne's Reports. R. & M. C. C. Ryan and Moody's Crown Cases.

R. & M. N. P. Ryan and Moody's Nisi Prius Cases.

R. & R. Russell and Ryan's Crown Cases.

R. M. Charlt. R. M. Charlton's Reports.
RS. Responsum.

R. S. L. Reading on Statute Law. Ram on Judgm. Ram on the Law relating to Legal Judgments.

Rand. Perp. Randall on the Law of Perpetuities.

Rand. R. Randolph's Reports. Rast. Rastall's Entries. Rawle's R. Rawle's Reports. Rawle, Const. Rawle on the Constitution. Ray's Med. Jur. Ray's Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.

Raym. or, more usually, Ld. Raym. Lord Raymond's Reports. T. Raym. Sir Thomas Raymond's Reports.

Re. fa. lo. Recordari facias loquelum. Vide Refalo in the body of the work. Rec. Recopilacion. Rec. Recorder; as, City Hall Rec.

Redd. on Mar. Com. Reddie's Historical View of the Law of Maritime Commerce.

Redesd. Pl. Redesdale's Equity Pleading. This work is also and most usually cited Milf. Pl.

Reeves's H. E. L. Reeves's History of the English Law. Reeves on Ship. Reeves on the Law of Shipping and Navigation.

Reeves on Des. Reeves on Descents. Reg. Regula, rule. Reg. Register. Reg. Brev. Registrum Brevium, or Register of Writs.

Reg. Gen. Regulæ generalis.
Reg. Jud. Registrum Judiciale.
Reg. Mag. Regiam Magestatem.
Reg. Pl. Regula Placitandi.

Renouard, des Brev. d'Inv. Traité des Brevets d'Invention, de Perfectionement, et

Rep. Eq. Gilbert's Reports in Equity. Rep. Q. A. Reports of cases during the time of Queen Anne.

Rep. T. Finch. Reports tempore Finch. Rep. T. Hard. Reports during the time of Lord Hardwicke.

Rep. t. Holt. Reports tempore Holt. Rep. T. Talb. Reports of cases decided during the time of Lord Talbot.

Res. Resolution. The cases reported in Coke's Reports, are divided into resolu tions on the different points of the case, and are cited 1 Res. &c.

Ret. Brev. Retorna Brevium.

Rev. St. or Rev. Stat. Revised Statutes. Rey, des Inst. de l'Anglet. Des Institutions Judiciaries de l'Angleterre comparées avec celles de la France. Par Joseph Rey.

Reyn. Inst. Institutions du Droit des Gens, &c. par Gerard de Reyneval.

Ric. Richard; as, 12 Ric, 2, c. 15. Rice's Rep. Reports of cases in Chancery argued and determined in the Court of Appeals and Court of Errors of South Carolina. By William Rice, State reporter.

Rich. Pr. C. P. Richardson's Practice in the Common Pleas.

Rich. Pr. K. B. Richardson's Practice in the King's Bench.

Rich. on Wills. Richardson on Wills.

Ridg. Irish T. R. Ridgeway, Lapp, and Schoales's Term Reports in the K. B., Dublin. Sometimes this is cited Ridg. L. & S. Ridg. Rep. Ridgeway's Reports of Cases in K. B. and Chancery.

Ridg. St. Tr. Ridgeway's Reports of State Trials in Ireland.

Rob. Adm. Rep. Robinson's Admiralty Reports.

Rob. Cas. Robertson's cases in Parliament, from Scotland.

Rob. Dig. Roberts's Digest of the Eng. lish Statutes in force in Pennsylvania. Rob. Entr. Robinson's Entries. Rob. on Fr. Roberts on Frauds. Rob. on Fraud. Conv. Roberts on Fraudulent Conveyances.

Rob. Just. Robinson's Justice of the peace.

Rob. Pr. Robinson's Practice in suits at law, in Virginia.

Rob. on Wills. Roberts's Treatise on the Law of Wills and Codicils.

Roll. Rolle's Abridgment. Roll. R. Rolle's Reports.

Rom. Cr. Law. Romilly's Observations on the Criminal law of England, as it relates to capital punishments.

Rop. on H. & W. A Treatise on the Law of Property, arising from the relation between Husband and Wife. By R. S. Donnison Roper. 2 vols. 8vo.

Rop. Leg. Roper on Legacies.

Rop. on Revoc. Roper on Revocations. Rosc. Roscoe. Rosc. on Act. Roscoe on Actions relating to Real Property. Rosc. Civ. Ev. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence on the trial of actions at Nisi Prius. Rosc. Cr. Ev. Roscoe on Criminal Evidence. Rosc. on Bills. Roscoe's Treatise on the law relating to Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bankers' Checks, &c. Rose's R. Rose's Reports of cases in Bankruptcy.

Ross on V. & P. Ross on the Law of Vendors and Purchasers.

Rot. Parl. Rotule Parliamentariæ.
Rowe's Sci. Jur. Rowe's Scintilla Juris.
Rub. or Rubr. Rubric, (q. v.)
Ruffh. Ruff head's Statutes at large.
Ruffin's R. Ruffin's Reports.

Runn. Ej. Runnington on Ejectments. Runn. Stat. Runnington's Statutes at large.

Rus. & Myl. Russell and Mylne's Chancery Reports.

Rush. Rushworth's Collections.

Russ. Cr. Russell on Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Russ. & Myl. Russell and Mylne's Reports of cases in Chancery.

Russ. R. Russell's Reports of cases in Chancery.

Russ. & Ry. Russell and Ryan's Crown Cases. Rutherf. Inst. Rutherford's Institutes of Natural Law.

Ry. F. Rymer's Fœdera.

Ry. & Mo. Ryan and Moody's Nisi Prius Reports. In E. C. L. R. Ry. & Mo. C. C. Ryan and Moody's Crown Cases.

Ry. Med. Jur. Ryan on Medical Juris. prudence.

S. §, section.

S. B. Upper Bench.

S. & B. Smith and Batty's Reports. S. C. Same Case.

S. & L.

S. C. C. Select cases in Chancery.
S. C. Rep. South Carolina Reports.
Schoale and Lefroy's Reports.
Shaw and Maclean's Reports.
S. P. Same Point.

S. & M.

S. & S. Simon and Stuart's Chancery Reports. In Con. C. R.

Sa. & Scul. Sausse and Scully's Reports.
Sadl. St. Pap. Sadler's State Papers.
Salk. Salkeld's Reports.

Sand. U. & T. Sanders on Uses and Trusts.

Sanf. on Ent. Sanford on Entails. Sant. de Assec. Santerna, de Assecurationibus.

Saund. Saunders's Reports.

Saund. Pl. & Ev. Saunders's Treatise on the Law of Pleading and Evidence. Sav. Saville's Reports.

Sav. Hist. Rom. Law. Savigny's History of the Roman Law during the Middle Ages. Translated from the German of Carl Von Savigny, by E. Cathcart.

Say. Sayer's Reports. Say. Costs. Sayer's law of Costs.

Scac. de Cam. Scaccia de Cambiis. Scam. Rep. Scammon's Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois.

Sch. & Lef. Schoale and Lefroy's Reports.

Scheiff. Pr. Scheiffer's Practice. Schul. Aq. R. Schultes on Aquatic Rights.

Sci. fa. Scire facias.

Sci. fa. ad dis. deb. Scire facias ad disprobandum debitum, (q. v.)

Scil. Scilicet, that is to say.
Sco. N. R. Scott's New Reports.
Scott's R. Scott's Reports.

Scriv. Copyh. Scriven's Copyholds.
Seat. F. Ch. Seaton's Forins in Chan.
cery. By Henry Wilmot Seaton.
Sec. Section.

Sec. Leg. Secundum legem; according to law.

Sec. Reg. Secundum regulam; accord. ing to rule.

Sel. Ca. Chan. Select cases in Chancery. Vide S. C. C.

Seld. Mar. Cla. Seldon's Mare Clausum.
Self. Tr. Selfridge's Trial.
Sell. Pr. Sellon's Practice in K. B. and