January 1888: New Jersey was one of a very small number of states that persisted in citing cases by the name of the court reporter rather than the name of the state. The Law Journal editors said they would henceforth start citing cases by the number of the volume in the law or equity series, i.e., N.J.L. or N.J.Eq. “If this plan were adopted by the judges, and in the state reports, the bar would soon become familiar with the state numbers and the reporter’s number could be omitted,” they said.
100 Years Ago
January 1913: The Law Journal agreed with a proposal by the state Commission of Charities to abolish county jails and to replace them with houses of detention and work houses. “It is notorious that county jails cannot reform offenders, but do often confirm them as criminals, because they are kept in idleness and are placed in company with other criminals who are worse than themselves,” the editors wrote.
