Circuit and District Courts.

The rules for admission to these courts vary. Generally attorneys who have been admitted to practice in other United States courts or the highest courts of a state or territory are eligible.

FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS.

U. S. Supreme Court.

A complete set of the United States Supreme Court Reports (1790 to 1902) consists of 182 volumes. Everything subsequent to vol. 105 is covered by the Supreme Court Reporter (of the National Reporter System) in a set of 21 volumes bound in 19 books. The Supreme Court Reporter makes currently one volume a year, covering all the current decisions filed by the court, and is supplied to subscribers in advance sheets as published; these being displaced at the end of the year by a bound volume which contains everything in the official edition, and is equipped with a table giving the official page references.

There are other editions of the United States Reports,one giving vols. I to 182 in 45 books, and another giving vols. I to 182 in 146 books.

U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

These courts were established in 1892, and all opinions from the beginning have been reported currently in the Federal Reporter. (See below.) The back volumes of this set, therefore, incorporate all the reported decisions from these nine courts, and the current numbers give the first report of the current decisions.

The decisions are reported separately in the C. C. A. Reports, of which 49 volumes are now completed.