VOL III.LAW SCHOOLY Columbia, S. C. PRINTED BY DOYLE E SWEENY 4 NOTICE. The present volume commences with the New Court of Appeals of South Carolina, and contains all the law decisions made by the court since its new organization, except the cases of the last Charleston Term, the manuscripts of which the Reporter could not procure until it was too late to include them in this volume. The volume of Mr Harper's Law Reports, brought up the law decisions to the formation of the new Court. The Reporter has thought it most advisable to leave the Equity Cases for a separate volume. In many cases argued at Columbia, May 1826, the opinions of the court have not yet been delivered, which will explain why they are not published. By mistake of the Clerk, the opinions of Judge Johnson, delivered in the Columbia January Term. 1826, were included in the preceeding April Term, in which they have been published. All the cases published in this volume were argued before the appointment of the present Reporter to that office, except those published in the last Term of this volume. For the notes of arguments published in the two first terms contained in this volume, the Reporter is indebted to his friend, Wm. Harper Esq. his late predecessor, who, upon his appointment to the Senate of the United States, was kind enough to give him all his notes, which he had previously taken. The Reporter begs leave to return his thanks to the Hon. Judge Johnson, who unsolicited, was so kind as to take notes of arguments for him, of the Charleston Term which has not yet been published. The uniform urbanity simplicity and unpretending kindness of his Honour has obtained for him the universal respect and love of every member of the profession. |