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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Lawyers Co-operative Publishing: A Complete Index to all L.R.A. Notes (1919)

A Complete Index to all L.R.A. Notes,
1 LRA to LRA 1918F, 1888-1918,
Also 1 to 7 B. R. C.,
In One Volume and One Alphabetical Arrangement.
Published by the Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, Rochester, NY, 1919

Condition: Binding is half separated at the front, and loose for the rest. The first two pages are separate from the rest of the book. The pages in the body of the book are no longer pure white, but otherwise are in very good shape. There is no listing for this edition on the internet. The edition that is listed is only available to be printed. The price for our book: $40, as is.

"This index greatly simplifies the use of L.R.A. because it brings all the annotation in the whole series, from 1 LRA to 1918F, into a single volume under a single alphabetical arrangement.

LRA annotations now cover a great range of subjects. They not only collect the authorities for you, but thoroughly analyze, compare, and review them so as to give exact information as to what the courts have actually decided. In multitudes of instances they give very quickly all you could get by days and weeks of investigation elsewhere."

Do I know what that all means? Heck, no. (Google doesn't have a listing for LRA.)  But this must have been a great leap forward when it came out. Were these laws having only to do with Rochester, NY, or only with New York State? I don't know that either, but if you are buying this book you probably already know.

I do know the Lawyers Co-operative Publishers have been in existence since 1882. Wow.
Look for it in our glass case at the front of the store.