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IN the side notes in this volume, are added frequent references to the New York Reports. They will be often found necessary, and at all times useful, in explaining the Text.

That part of the Oregon Statutes relating to the manner of commencing and prosecuting actions at law, are taken, word for word, from the New York Code. As the Code abolished the distinctions that formerly existed in civil actions, and modified the forms of practice in many essential respects, those who practised under the old system will often find difficulty in understanding the provisions herein enacted, and to no other Reports can they refer, in cases of doubt, unless to those of New York. We have also incorporated that part of the New York Statutes which refers to Executors and Administrators, and to Fraudulent Conveyances and Contracts.

To say anything in favor of the New York Reports would be superfluous; they are acknowledged to be superior in legal erudition, and are, for this reason, referred to more frequently by the legal writers of this country than those of any other State. Until we have a settled system of Jurisprudence of our own, we must rely on the experience of our neighbor. The Editor, therefore, confidently hopes the references furnished to the following enactments will have the approval of the profession.

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