... having not unlike laws and institutions.The multiplication of American reports makes judicial precedents of decreasing value to the American lawyer.English cases are cited as authority far less ... to separate English from American jurisprudence. Our written Constitutions haveperpetuated here ideas of government and property which England does not recognize. Hence American precedents are ... also.[Footnote: Steiner, "Maryland's First Courts,"Reports of American Historical Association for 1901, 211; Osgood, "The American Colonies in theSeventeenth Century," I, Chap. II;...