A summary of arguments and cases filed by counsel in an appellate court; called in Pennsylvania a “paper book”:—not, as in England, a memorandum of instructions for counsel.

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1821.  I do not think much of the legal acquirements of that man who, after being furnished with the briefs of counsel, and picking the brains of the bar, is able … to tack together as much law as will make a good opinion.—Corr., The American, New York, Aug. 22, p. 2/3.

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