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a. American Bankruptcy Reports. Contains bankruptcy cases in 
Federal and State Courts, 49 volumes (1899-1923). 
h. American Bankruptcy Reports, New Series, 1923 to date. 
c. American Criminal Reports, 15 volumes (1877-1909). Con- 
tains selected criminal cases from American, English, 
Scotch, Irish, and Canadian law reports. 
d. Negligence and Compensation Cases. Contains selected cases 
dealing with negligence, employer’s liability, and workmen’s 
compensation decided by American, English, and Canadian 
courts from 1912 to date. This series is a continuation of 
American Negligence Reports, 21 volumes (1896-1910), 
which in turn was a continuation of American Negligence 
Cases, 17 volumes (1789-1896). 
e. Public Utility Reports Annotated. Contains what the editors 
deem important decisions and orders of commissions and 
courts concerning regulation of public utilities from 1915 
to date. Advance sheets are issued bi-weekly. 
/. For a list of other series of selected cases (which have been 
discontinued), see Hicks, Materials and Methods of Legal 
Research (1923), page 559. 
D. Reports of Judicial Decisions in England. 
1. Prior to the Year Books. 
a. Bigelow, Placita Anglo-Normanica. Containing miscellaneous 
cases from William I to Richard I (1066-1195), collected by 
Melville M. Bigelow from various historical documents and 
published in 1879. 
b. Plea Rolls. Our earliest known plea rolls date from 1194. 
The plea roll of a term contained a record of each case 
tried at the term, giving “the names of the parties to the 
(an) action, the nature of the action, the plaintiff’s state- 
ment of his case, the defendant’s defence, and the pleas 
upon which both parties finally rested their case, the issue 
left to a jury, if an issue were left to one, the verdict of 
that jury if one were ever delivered, and the judgment of 
the Court upon that verdict.” 108 All these rolls in the Curia 
Regis thru 1201 have now been made accessible in the 
following: 
(1) Palgrave, Rotuli Curiae Regis (1194-1199), pub- 
lished in 1835. 
(2) Maitland, Three Rolls in King’s Court (1194-1195), 
published in 1891. 
(3) Curia Regis Rolls, published by the British Govern- 
ment in 1923. 
Cases from other rolls are available in: 109 
(1) Baildon, Select Civil Pleas, 1889 (1200-1203). 
(2) Maitland, Select Pleas of the Crown, 1888 (1200- 
1225). 
10S Bolland, The Year Books 27, 28 (1921). 
109 The date immediately following the title is the year of publication ; the date 
in parenthesis indicates the period covered by the cases. 
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