DISTRICT OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.

E IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-sixth day of September,

in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, DANIEL FAUST, of Columbia, in the district aforesaid, deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"Reports of Cases determined in the Constitutional Court of SouthCarolina, by HENRY JUNIUS NOTT & DAVID JAMES M'CORD, Counsellors at Law. Vol. II."

IN CONFORMITY to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also an act, entitled, “An Act, supplementary to An Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints."

JAMËS JERVEY, District Clerk of South-Caroling.

PREFACE.

IT will be noticed, that a few cases have been inserted in this volume, taken from the MS. Reports of Mr. Justice Bre. vard. We regret exceedingly, that those reports were received by us at so late a period (though politely transmitted to us as soon as applied for) as to prevent us from making as extensive use of them as might be beneficial to the profession, The cases collected by the Judge, in four volumes, have been reported with great precision and correctness, with notes containing much learning and legal information; and should we continue the present work, extensive use will be made of them, as they contain a variety of cases of the greatest impor tance, decided by the Constitutional Court, of which no other record remains.

NOTT & M'CORD,