(See, also, Bond, Flippin, Bissell, and Hempstead [Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits].) PACIFIC STATE DISTRICTS Hoffman's Land Cases. 1853-1858 1 (See, also, Deady and Sawyer [Ninth Circuit].) Besides the above reports there has been published a collection of the decisions of the district and circuit courts known as "Federal Cases," in 30 books and a digest. This series purports to contain all the decisions of these courts from their organization down to the time of and connecting with the Federal Reporter (1789-1879). The cases are arranged alphabetically by the names of the plaintiffs, and are numbered. There are about 18,000 cases. The cases included in this series (and including, of course, those in the reports listed above) are practically obsolete and are now rarely cited. In the multitude of cases of more recent date there is little occasion now to refer to the earlier decisions of these courts. Since 1880 all the decisions of the district and circuit courts, and of the circuit courts of appeals since their establishment in 1891, have been published in the Federal Reporter, which is part of the National Reporter System. About 240 volumes of this Reporter have already appeared, and with its establishment no further attempt has been made to report the decisions of the district and circuit courts. The decisions of the circuit courts of appeals have been reported not only in the Federal Reporter but also in a series known as the United States Appeals Reports, of which 63 volumes were published, and in a series still being continued known as the Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports. In addition to the reports mentioned above, the decisions of the Court of Claims, and of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and of the General Land Office, and the opinions of the attorneys general, are published by the government. Various collections of patent decisions of the circuit courts and Supreme Court have been published from time to time, but all current patent cases are now reported in the Federal Reporter. Bankruptcy decisions under the Act of 1867 were reported in the National Bankruptcy Register, and decisions under the Act of 1898 are reported in the American Bankruptcy Reports, as well as in the Federal Reporter. § 120. Federal statutes. The acts of Congress are published by the government in a series of books known as the Statutes at Large, which contain all public and private statutes and treaties. Thirty-eight volumes have already been published. In 1875 Congress published a compilation of statutes known as the Revised Statutes, of which a second edition was published in 1878. Two supplemental volumes have since been published. These compilations are practically unusable, and are largely obsolete, and this has led to the publication by private enterprise of two other compilations, both of which appeared in 1901. One of these is the United States Compiled Statutes, covering all federal laws of a general nature to the close of the fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1901). This work is in three volumes, the arrangement of the statutes following the order of the Revised Statutes. The work is kept up-to-date by supplements. The other compilation is the Federal Statutes Annotated, a monumental work in ten volumes, with supplemental volumes keeping the work up-to-date, in which the statutes are arranged alphabetically according to subjects, and the Constitution and statutes are exhaustively annotated. This work is invaluable to persons interested in federal law. New editions of both of these compilations have just (1916) been announced. There are also some other publications of or relating to the federal statutes which are of less importance than the compilations just described. |