9. Selected cases as a solution of the Acting upon the theory that the entire body of case law was too voluminous for practical use, much learning and labor has been bestowed upon the selection and annotation of leading or important cases, which were supposed to constitute sufficient authority upon all points necessary to the success of the practitioner and the correct information of the court. The difficulty of this method lies in the fact that no editor is wise enough to foresee all the cases which may, or may not, at some time, under some circumstances, become important. Hence, many important cases are omitted from all the systems of selected cases. In our work, a very few cases are reported in full; but a short and easy access is furnished to every case, no matter how unimportant it may appear to the editors of this serial. Those cases which we report in full are limited by fixed rules. They are: 1. Cases which overrule other cases upon important points. 2. Cases which, for the first time, construe some important statute. 3. Cases which, for the first time, apply legal principles to some novel state of facts arising out of some new discovery or change in social conditions. 4. A very few cases in which the discussion of the court is so exhaustive and careful as to amount to a treatise upon the subject considered. All the cases coming under these four heads occupy but a very small portion of our space, but we find that we have published a number which are entirely omitted from every system of selected cases now offered to the profession. Some of these cases are exceedingly important. See our serial, Vol. I., §§ 147-150; 285-286; 291-292; 352354. Vol. II., §§ 60-64; 90-92; 109-110; 148-150; 196198; 260-263; 449-453; 629-632. Vol. III., §§ 576-578; 632; 717-719. Vol. IV., §§ 59-64; 216-218; 219-223; 836841. This is a forcible illustration of the fact that no one lawyer can decide what cases will be of no benefit to other lawyers. In our work we show the real growth of the law which all the cases make, and give the lawyer immediate access to any one of them with reliable information as to its value to him. 10. The encyclopedia system. This system of "legal exposition" has been styled, by its authors, as "the logical outcome of this text-book hotchpotch" with which the profession has been deluged for the last quarter of a century. It is no reflection on the ability and enterprise of the authors of this system to say that it is a splendid short-cut new edition of the text-books and law dictionaries which are already upon the shelves of the profession; but, in the all-important respect, it is just like the text-books which it so vigorously assails-it will not stay new. By the time the last letter in the alphabet has been reached, the treatment of the subjects in the volume beginning with A has become ten years old." A new edition must be made. The lawyer must again buy the same matter which he has purchased in many forms before. The commercial value of those large, beautiful volumes he purchased ten years since is entirely destroyed, and as he consigns them to destruction he consoles himself with the thought that ten years later these large and newer volumes must go the same way. Again we say that it is not 66 new editions" that are needed, but new additions. Supplemented by our work, upon every possible subdivision of every topic belonging to the broad field which it covers, every old book in the lawyer's library, including the encyclopedias, is just as valuable as a new edition. We offer the profession no obsolete law, neither do we offer them that which is already on their shelves; but we add to what they have. In the volumes of our serial already out we give the busy lawyer quick and easy access to every legal principle in 20,000 cases are not even cited in any encyclopedia, text-book or system of selected cases. 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