THE BAR We are law mad. We look upon law as a cure-all. If you want PRICE 10 CENTS $1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE INDEX PRINT, FAIRMONT COOLEY'S BRIEFS ON INSURANCE This work not only collects all the authorities on a given point of law, but deals with them as a lawyer does when preparing his own brief. It furnishes, practically, a complete set of briefs on every phare of the Law of Insurance, ready to be adapted to individual need. Questions of avoidance and forfeiture of the policy proof of loss, and of waiver and estoppel as applied to the insurance contract (adequately treated in no other work), are set forth with fullness and detail. BOUND IN BUCKRAM OR SHEEP 5 VOLUMES. $27.00 DELIVERED. WORDS AND PHRASES With this work in your office, you know the satisfaction of being able to ascertain promptly the construction which the COURTS have placed on a word. It may save you the necessity of testing it in the courts. yourself. It is a collection of some 135,000 judicial and statutory definitions which are found scattered through the American reports and statutes. A judicial definition of a word carries the same sort of weight as a judicial interpretation of the law. BOUND IN BUCKRAM OR SHEEP 8 VOLUMES. $48.00 DELIVERED. WEST PUBLISHING CO., St. Paul, Minn. THE BAR VOL. XIV. JANUARY, 1907. THE BAR AN OPEN FORUM. NO. 1 This journal is intended to furnish an open forum to every lawyer for the discussion of any policy or proposition of interest to the Profession. It invites a free interchange of views upon all such topics whether they agree with the views of THE BAR or not. THE BAR goes to every court house in the State, and is read by, probably, three-fourths of the lawyers of the State, and thus furnishes not only a ready medium of communication between members of the Profession, but of unification of the Profession on all matters of common concern, which is its prime mission. Every clerk of a circuit court is the authorized agent of THE BAR in his county, and has the subscription bills in his possession, and will receive and receipt for all money due on that account, or for new subscriptions, and his receipt will always be a good acquittance for money due THE BAR. THE BAR is furnished at the nominal rate of $1.00 a year, which is less than the cost of publication, and we would like to have the name of every lawyer in the State on our subscription list. THE ELKINS MEETING OF THE WEST VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION. The West Virginia Bar Association passed its twenty-first anniversary most delightfully and profitably as the guests of the Randolph county bar, at the City of Elkins. Perhaps a summer session at this city on the mountain top would have added to the beauty and delightfulness of the occasion, but while the weather conditions were a little unfavor able, these were entirely forgotten in the warmth of hospitality. the comfort and completeness of the hotel accommodations, and the social atmosphere that was generated by the assembling of the "clan." We ought to say, that the hotel accommodations furnished by the City of Elkins were quite as complete and satisfactory as any the Association has heretofore enjoyed in its annual peregrinations. And the foresight and care with which the local bar had provided for the reception of their guests left nothing to be desired in the way of physical comforts. The attendance was up to the average, although there were some sections of the State usually well represented, that were conspiculously deficient at this meeting. The railroad lines. are considerably broken in reaching Elkins from almost any part of the State, and this, in connection with the wintry season made the trip look like a big undertaking, and doubtless deterred many from undertaking it. But many of the veterans and many new recruits were present and altogether this session of the Association may be pronounced one of the most profitable and enjoyable of the twenty-one years of its history. Looking at the work and spirit of the association, and espe cially at the topics which occupied the attention of the members at this session, we are justified in saying that every year it is becoming more practical; every year the scope of its work and influence is broadening; and it is coming to be recognized more and more as a factor to be counted with in all the great |