It is much to be regretted that some provision was
not made to consolidate or unify the courts into one
court as has been done in England. This would af-
ford an example for other States to follow, which
might, in time, bring about one uniform court with
a like practice throughout the whole country; a con-
summation much to be hoped and desired.
On the whole, it is believed, notwithstanding what
has been said above of the dangers of transferring the
power to regulate the practice from the legislative
bodies to the courts, that it would be better and more
satisfactory to have this done by rules of court. In
reaching this conclusion, however, the important fact
must not be overlooked that our courts are not as ef-
ficient and reliable as they should be. But this only
makes it all the more important that the standards of
the legal profession should be elevated, and the courts
made more efficient and worthy of the trust and con-
fidence of the people.
CHAPTER XV

REPORTS OF DECISIONS

Manifestly something should be done to check the
enormous flow and accumulation of reports of decided
cases. The effort to trace the dicisions on any sub-
ject has become a laborious and, often, profitless task.
So many of the cases are practical duplicates of pre-
vious decisions, being founded upon them, that the
examination of one out of many cases would answer
every purpose; yet the careful and prudent lawyer
often feels it incumbent upon him to search for and
examine them all in the interest and for the protec-
tion of his client. When he does, he finds many of the
opinions little better than digests of earlier cases.
