all the Authorities. KEY NUMBER SYSTEM Your A new device which effectually and finally solves the "case law problem." Original-Exclusive-Revolutionary The practitioner's case law problem, which is problem. always with him, is to find from the 700,000 reported cases the authorities directly applicable to the particular legal questions in hand. Our The case law problem for the law publisher is problem. to help the practitioner to find these few authorities from the many, most readily, most easily, and most exhaustively. Both solved. Now first Both problems are now solved by a new device we have worked out for making the wealth of the American Digest System available in connection with the Reporter System, producing what is in effect a system of universal and specific annotations. This scheme was never possible before, because the material was not available until the American possible. Digest System was perfected. All the past decisions classified. And now the current decisions also. In the American Digest System, the points of law in the 700,000 reported cases are extracted, carefully formulated, and arranged in 112,000 groups, each one of which forms, in effect, a specific "note" or collection of the authorities on some particular point of law. The classification followed in the Digest System is now extended to the Reporter System. Every every new decision is classified by experts point in for the American Digest System before it is published in the Reporters. Its place in the Digest classification is then editorially indicated by the Key-Number section, adopted in connection with the Decennial and the current American number. Digests. This Key-Number Annotation is now invariably affixed to every Reporter headnote. The key The future cases. The key number thus works backwards and forwards, making the American Digest annotations perpetual, receiving from day to day the new authorities as they come from the courts, and making them instantly accessible to the searcher through the talismanic number. No other system can possibly accomplish this. No other form of annotations made to-day can carry with them an unerring reference forward through the reports and digests to all future cases in point. C6786b-1 How to use the points of law and include all the authorities, past, present and future, the only remaining question is annota- how to find the annotations which are desired at any given time out of the 112,000. This is accomplished readily and effectively in three ways: tions. way. First 1. Through the topical American Digest classification with the aid of the cross-references, and by the descriptive word method. (A "bill of particulars" will be furnished on request.) By this means, the digest annotations can be quickly found by their subject-matter. way. Second 2. Through the Table of Cases published in connection with the Decennial Digest. Any single case becomes "the key to all cases in point." The title of the known case in the Table leads the searcher directly to the "section" in the Century or Decennial Digest from which earlier and later cases in point can be traced mechanically by following the references. Third 3. Through the annotations in the National way. Reporter System. For the past ten years, the Reporters have been annotated by references to the Century Digest. From November, 1908, they have been annotated with the key number of the Decennial Digest, as described above. Every reported case will thus be directly and immediately connected with all the pertinent annotations throughout the entire American Digest System. In a word: What more can be desired. And all with no The Reporter System will henceforth add to all the other points of superiority of its service this supreme advantage: Every point in every case will be keyed to the American Digest System, connected automatically and immediately by a simple and positive annotation with all past and future decisions on the same point. All the authorities classified and arranged in that great storehouse, the American Digest System. Each new case annotated to all the authorities (past and future) at the time it is reported. This new feature is added to the Reporters without increasing the cost to subscribers by one increase cent. We simply want you to understand it and in cost. use it. C6786c-3 WEST PUBLISHing Co. St. Paul, Minnesota (225) LAMB v. W. H. MITCHELL & CO. (Court of Appeals of Georgia. Feb. 6, 1915.) (Syllabus by the Court.) 1. CARRIERS 135 - Loss of SHIPMENT If from the market value of a commodity [Ed. Note.-For other cases, see Carriers, That is the Topic and Section It is also where we have already It is the Key Number Annotation An Illustration in Miniature C7838a-12 (226) |