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5 U.S. Monthly L. Mag. 1 (1852)

handle is hein.journals/usmlwm5 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES MONTHLY VOL. V. JANUARY, 1852. No. I. PROGRESS OF UNION OF LAW AND EQUITY.* 1. Report of the Commissioners appointed to revise and reform the Pro- ceedinas in the Courts of Justice. MASSACHUSETTS. 1851. 2. An Act to change the Forms of Pleading in the Circuit 'Courts of Mississippi. 1850. 3. The Statutes of CALrFoRNIA passed at the First Session of the Legisla- ture, began the 15th day of December, 1849, and ended the 22d day of April, 1850, at the city of Pueblo de San Jose, c. 142: An Act to regulate Proceedings in Civil Cases in the District Court, the Supe- ripr Court of the City of San Francisco, and Supreme Court, passed April 22, 1850. 4. Amended Constitution of the State of INDIANA, as adopted by the Con- vention of the State, Feb. 10, 1851: art. vii. s. 20. 5. Report of the Commissioners appointed to prepare a Code of Practice for the Commonwealth of KENTucK . Frankfort: November, 1850. 6. Law of the State of MissouaI, regulating Pleadings and Practices in Courts of Justice, with Notes and Appendix. By R. W. WELLS. St. Louis: Missouri Republican Steam Power Press, 1849. TaE titles of the various acts and documents at the head of this article will serve to show in some measure the progress which the prin- ciples of the New-York Code, to which we have recently adverted at such lengtht have already made, and this in fact is the best evidence in their favor. Whatever some of the older generation of lawyers of that country may say, state after state would not, without a dissenting voice, adopt, Commissioners would not unanimously recommend the adoption of; that which three years' trial had proved to be a failure. Not only are the people in favor of the new Code of Procedure, but, after all, the sensible and intelligent lawyer must find its adoption ad- visable and necessary; and from various private sources of information which have been opened to us, we are enabled to state that the legal profession, and more especially the judges of America, (who surely are * London Law Review for May, 1851. t See NO. 25, Art. I.