Ohio-Cont'd.

Lebanon University Law School, Lebanon, Ohio. Threeyear course of study.

Toledo Law School, Toledo, Ohio. Three-year course of study.

Oklahoma.

University of Oklahoma Law School, Norman, Okl. Threeyear course of study.

Oregon.

University of Oregon Law School, Portland, Or. Threeyear course of study.

Portland Law School, Portland, Or. Three-year course of study.

Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Three-year course of study.

Philadelphia Law School, Philadelphia, Pa. Four-year course of study.

Dickinson College of Law, Carlisle, Pa. Three-year course of study.

Pittsburg Law School, Pittsburg, Pa. Three-year course of study.

South Carolina.

University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia, S. C. Three-year course of study.

South Dakota.

University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. D. Threeyear course of study.

Tennessee.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Two-year course of study.

Tennessee-Cont'd.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Three-year course

of study.

Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn. One-year course of study.

Chattanooga Law School, Chattanooga, Tenn. Two-year course of study.

Texas.

University of Texas, Austin, Tex. Three-year course of study.

Virginia.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Three-year course of study.

Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Two-year course of study.

Richmond College, Richmond, Va. Two-year course of study.

Washington.

University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. Three-year course of study.

West Virginia.

University of West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va. Twoyear course of study.

Wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wis. Three-year course of study.

Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wis. Three-year course of study.

in a Private Law Library.

REPORTS AND REPORTERS.

Judge Dillon says in his work on the Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America: "The law, as a result of the ever-occurring changes in the condition of society and in legislation, is constantly changing. The old is, to a great extent, so well settled and known as to have become elementary and indisputable. It is the new that is unknown, and needs interpretation and definition. And as between the old reports and the new, the experience of every lawyer and judge is, I think, to the effect that the new are the most useful because the most needed."

The current supreme court decisions of all the states are published in two editions. In each state the local reports are published as a local series under the auspices of the state. This is commonly known as the "official edition." The current decisions of each state are also published in seven Reporters, making up the National Reporter System. In the Reporters the cases are published first in weekly advance sheets, which are afterwards replaced by bound volumes for permanent use.

In building up a library of reports, three considerations should be borne in mind: To obtain the books most useful; to buy in such a manner that subsequent purchases will not duplicate the first; and to obtain the books with the smallest expenditure possible. The National Reporter System fulfills all these requirements. The National Reporter System contains the late cases, and it is far better to buy a set of the Reporter System, and thus obtain the later decisions of the whole. country back to a given point, than to buy the entire reports of

any one state, the early volumes of which contain little that has not been affirmed in the later reports, or that is not obsolete or so well settled as to be indisputable. The one exception to this rule is in favor of the decisions of one's own state. The set a lawyer first buys is generally that containing the supreme court decisions of his own state, and, as he wishes to increase his library, he can add other reports as he is prepared to do so. If he wishes the reports of any state in full, he can buy the early volumes to the date when their publication commences in the Reporter System at a material saving over the cost of an entire set. The difference in cost between buying the official reports and obtaining the same cases in the Reporter System is well illustrated in the Northeastern Reporter.

The Northeastern Reporter, volumes 1 to 99, contains all the opinions reported in 489 volumes of the Reports of Massachusetts, the New York Court of Appeals, Ohio, Indiana Supreme Court, Indiana Appellate Court, and Illinois Supreme Court. The price of the Northeastern, volumes 1 to 99, is $267.00. The price of the corresponding state reports is $1,207.05. This price is that at which the state reports is sold outside of the particular state. In some of the states a lower price is made to attorneys within the state. But compare this price with that of the Northeastern. The saving is enough to buy a whole law library of digests, text-books and local practice books,

While the National Reporter System was begun in 1879 with the Northwestern and extended to cover the entire country by 1886, it now contains more than one-half of the total number of decisions handed down by the courts of last resort of the country. This, moreover, is the later and therefore the more valuable half, as is demonstrated by the passage quoted by Judge Dillon in the opening paragraph of this ar