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Superior Court — Vol. 56. 
Silvernail — Vol. 1. 
Leading* Cases Annotated — Vol. 1. 
3. Reports of Selected Decisions of Federal and State Courts 
(General) . 
These are series of cases believed by the editors and compilers to be 
of general value and authority, dealing usually with questions which are 
of more than local value, or which are novel, or upon which there is 
a conflict of authority. The volumes in which they are published con- 
tain, by way of annotation, much material of secondary authority. (See 
below, Books of Secondary Authority F.) 
a. The Trinity Series. 
(1) American Decisions, 100 volumes (1760-1869). 
(2) American Reports, 60 volumes (1870-1887). 
(3) American State Reports, 140 volumes (1887-1917). 
b. Lawyers’ Reports Annotated. 
(1) L.R.A., First Series, 70 volumes (1888-1905). 
(2) L.R.A., New Series, 52 volumes (1906-1914). 
(3) L.R.A., Third Unit, 24 volumes (1915-1918). 
c. American and English Annotated Cases, 21 volumes (1906- 
1917). Cases from Canadian and British reports are in- 
cluded. 
d. American Annotated Cases, 32 volumes (1912-1918). This 
series represents a consolidation, and is a continuation of 
Lawyers’ Reports Annotated and American Annotated 
Cases. Publication began in 1919; about 6 volumes per 
year are issued. 
e. American Law Reports Annotated. This series represents 
a consolidation, and is a continuation of Lawyers’ Reports 
Annotated and American Annotated Cases. Publication 
began in 1919; about 6 volumes per year are issued. 
4. Reports of Selected Decisions of Federal and State Courts upon 
Special Subjects. 
South Carolina, Law: Bay, Brevard, Treadway (included in Brevard’s Reports. 
Vol. 3), Mill (Constitutional), Nott and McCord, McCord, Harper, Bailey, Hill, Riley, 
Dudley, Rice, Cheves, McMullan, Spear, Strobhart, Richardson, South Carolina Reports, 
New. Series; Chancery: Desaussure, Harper, McCord, Bailey, Richardson’s Cases, Hill, 
Riley, Dudley, Rice, Cheves, McMullan, Spear, Richardson, Strobhart, Richardson. 
Tennessee, Law: Overton, Cooke, Haywood, Peck, Martin and Yerger, Yerger, 
Meigs, Humphreys, Swan, Sneed, Head, Coldwell, Heiskell, Baxter, Lea, Pickle, Ten- 
nessee Reports, Tennessee Civil Appeals, Tennessee Circuit Court ; Chancery : Ten- 
nessee Chancery Reports (Cooper), Tennessee Chancery Appeals Reports. 
Texas: Dallam’s Decisions, Texas Supreme Court Reports, Texas Appeal Reports, 
Texas Criminal Appeals Reports (31 to 97), Texas Civil Appeal Reports, Texas Un- 
reported Cases (Posey), Vol. 25 Supp. Tex. Sup. Ct. Rep., Texas Civil Appeals Cases. 
Vermont: Chipman (N.), Chipman (D.), Tyler, Brayton, Aiken, Vermont Reports. 
Virginia: Jefferson, Wythe’s Chancery Reports, Washington, Virginia Criminal 
Cases, Call, Hening and Munford, Munford, Gilmer, Randolph, Leigh, Robinson, Grat- 
tan. Virginia Reports. (In June, 1912, the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals made 
a rule requiring counsel to cite the above listed reports by consecutive number of 
volume as well as by the Reporter’s name.) Special Virginia Reports: Patton, Jr. 
and Heath, Court of Appeals, Howison, Criminal Trials, Virginia Decisions. — H. E. W. 
