Duration of playright in printed and manuscript composi-

tions

Conditions on which playright may be secured

Publication and representation considered with reference to

playright in Great Britain

United States

Playright given only in case of copyrighted composition

No statutory playright in unpublished dramas

How playright is secured.

PAGE

601

603

€05

Transfer of playright. · Great Britain

-

617

Held, that assignment must be in writing

617

Is law settled that assignment must be in writing?

Transfer before playright secured

618

619

Offender liable to penalties under English statute when material

part taken

632

633

How far offender liable under American statute when only part

taken

634

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EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN

THIS WORK.

Abb. Pr. N. s. (N. Y.) Abbotts' Practice Reports, New York.

Abbott's United States Reports, Circuit and District
Courts.

Adolphus and Ellis's Reports, Queen's Bench.
Albany Law Journal, Albany, N. Y.

American.

American Law Record, Cincinnati, Ohio.

American Law Register, Philadelphia, Pa.

American Law Register, New Series, Philadelphia, Pa.
American Law Review, Boston, Mass.

American Law Times, New Series, New York, N. Y.
American Law Times Reports, Washington, D. C.
American Law Times Reports, New Series, New York,
N. Y.

American Reports.

Ambler's Reports, Chancery, Br.

Anstruther's Reports, Exchequer, Br.

Law Reports, Appeal Cases before House of Lords.
Article.

Atkyns's Reports, Chancery, Br.

Baron.

Ben. Monroe's Reports, Court of Appeals, Kentucky.
Bacon's Abridgment, title Prerogative.

Bacon's Abridgment, title Statute.

Ball and Beatty's Reports, Chancery, Ireland.
Barbour's Chancery Reports, New York.

Barbour's Supreme Court Reports, New York.
Barbeyrac's Pufendorf de Jure Naturæ et Gentium.
Barnewall and Adolphus's Reports, King's Bench.
Barnewall and Alderson's Reports, King's Bench.
Barnewall and Creswell's Reports, King's Bench.
Barnardiston's Chancery Reports, Br.
Beavan's Reports, Rolls Court, Br.

Best and Smith's Reports, Queen's Bench.

Bingham's Reports, Common Pleas, Br.

Bingham's New Cases, Common Pleas, Br.

Bissell's Reports, U. S. Circuit and District Courts, 7th
Circuit.

Blackstone's Commentaries.

Blatchford's Reports, U. S. Circuit Court, 2d Circuit.

Bligh's Reports, New Series, House of Lords.

Bond's Reports, U. S. Circuit and District Courts,
Southern District of Ohio.

British.

Brown's Chancery Cases, Br.
Brown's Cases in Parliament.

Burrow's Reports, King's Bench.

Bush's Reports, Court of Appeals, Kentucky.
Chapter.

Chief Baron.

Common Bench Reports (Manning, Granger, and Scott),
Br.

Common Bench Reports, New Series, Br.

Chancery Cases.

Circuit Court of the United States.

Chief Justice.
Common Law.

Common Pleas.

Law Reports, Common Pleas Division of the High
Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, Br.
Campbell's Reports, Nisi Prius, Br.

Charles the Second.

Carrington and Kirwan's Reports, Nisi Prius, Br.
Carrington and Payne's Reports, Nisi Prius, Br.

Carter's Reports, Common Pleas, Br.

Central Law Journal, St. Louis, Mo.

Chancery.

Law Reports, Chancery Division of the High Court of
Justice and the Court of Appeal, Br.

Chicago Legal News, Chicago, Ill.

Chitty's Reports, King's Bench.

Locke's Civil Government.

Construction Stat. & { Sedgwick's Construction of Statutory and Constitutional

Law

Law.

Cooper's Chancery Reports, time of Lord Cottenham.
Cooper's Chancery Cases, time of Lord Eldon.

Cowper's Reports, King's Bench.

Cox's Cases in Equity, Br.

Cranch's U. S. Circuit Court Reports, District of Co-
lumbia.

Curtis's Reports, U. S. Circuit Court, 1st Circuit.
Daily Register, New York, N. Y.

Day's Reports, Supreme Court of Errors, Connecticut.
Deady's Reports, U. S. Circuit and District Courts, Ore-
gon and California.

De Gex and Jones's Reports, Chancery, Br.

De Gex, Macnaghten, and Gordon's Reports, Chancery,
Br.

De Gex and Smale's Reports, Chancery, Br.

Grotius de Jure Belli ac Pacis.

Pufendorf de Jure Naturæ et Gentium.

Dowling and Lowndes' Practice Reports, Br.

Dowling and Ryland's Reports, King's Bench.

Dowling's Practice Cases, Br.

Drewry's Reports, Chancery, Br.

Duer's Reports, Superior Court of the City of New York.

East's Reports, King's Bench.

Eq.
Eq. Jur.

Eq. Rep.

Eden's Reports, Chancery, Br.

Edwards's Chancery Reports, New York.