OF

CASE S

ARGUED AND ADJUDGED

IN THE

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,

IN FEBRUARY TERM, 1804,

AND

FEBRUARY TERM, 1805.

POTIUS IGNORATIO JURIS LITIGIOSA EST, QUAM SCIENTIA.

CIC. DE LEGIBUS, DIAL. 1.

BY WILLIAM CRANCH,

Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.

SECOND EDITION,

REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK:

Printed by C. Wiley, No. 28 Provoost Street.

1812.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 25th day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and six, and in the thirtieth year of American Independence, the Hon. William Cranch, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"Reports of Cases, argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of "the United States, in February term, 1804, and February term,

1805."

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