Maine Civil Practice (2d ed.)

Shortly after the first edition of this book appeared I referred to it as "an excellent treatise," and I have kept a copy close at hand in my office so that I may benefit from its useful insights into procedural problems when I am engaged in my own writing about procedure in the federal system. I have now had an opportunity to read the second edition from cover to cover and have no doubt that it is even better, and will be even more useful to judges and lawyers in Maine and to persons interested in procedure outside Maine, than was its predecessor. The discussion is considerably more extensive in the second edition than in the earlier book. There are now 1074 pages of text discussing the Maine Rules of Civil Procedure compared with 628 pages in the first edition. The second edition, which necessarily has expanded to two volumes, also has an additional 116 pages on the Maine District Court Civil Rules. In 1959 the authors could only predict how a particular provision would be interpreted in Maine. Now they are able to draw on a decade of experience with the rules in Maine in explaining how they are to work.