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7. Reports of Selected Decisions of English Courts. 
a. Bankruptcy and Company Winding Up Cases, begun in 1915 
and succeeding Manson’s Bankruptcy and Companies Cases 
which began in 1894 and ended in 1914. 
b . Cox’s Criminal Law Cases, begun in 1843. 
c. Cohen’s Criminal Appeal Reports, begun in 1908. 
d. Butterworth’s Workmen’s Compensation Cases, begun in 1915 
and succeeding Minton-Senhouse’s Workmen’s Compensa- 
tion Cases. 
e. Reports of Cases under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 
and on Insurance Law. 
/. There are other collections of reports of special cases, a few 
still current, but most of them have ceased publication. 
g. Smith’s Leading Cases. Selected from all topics in the law 
and annotated. The ninth American edition was published 
in 1889. 
h. English Ruling Cases. In 26 volumes are collected English 
cases prior to 1900 deemed by the editors to be leading 
cases. They are arranged topically and annotated with 
English and American notes. 
i. British Ruling Cases. This is a current series of annotated 
cases from 1900 to date, containing cases which its editors 
believe to be of general interest and importance from Eng- 
land, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and New 
Zealand. 
E. Reports of Judicial Decisions of Other Parts of British Empire. 
1. A list of reports of the Courts of Ireland, Scotland, and Canada 
and Canadian Provinces will be found in Hicks, 547-555. 
2. Reports of Australian Courts. 
cv. Commonwealth Law Reports reporting decisions of the High 
Court of Australia. 
6. Each of the following states has reports bearing the name 
of the state, in much the same manner as the states of the 
United States, namely, New South Wales, Victoria, 
Queensland, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania. 
3. Reports of New Zealand Courts. 
a. These decisions are reported in New Zealand Law Reports. 
Books of Secondary Authority 
A. Digests. A digest of a volume of reports or of a set of reports 
is an elaborate index to that volume or set. 
1. American Digests, General. 
Until about the middle of the nineteenth century there were no 
respectable digests of American case law as a whole. Dane’s Abridg- 
ment, published in 1823-1824, was a hybrid of digest and commentary 
confined for the most part to the law of the Federal Courts and of 
Massachusetts. In 1848 the United States Digest began publication and 
continued till 1871, digesting decisions from 1847 to 1869. In 1874- 
