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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-01'>Saturday, February 1, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, for defendant in <name type='case'>People ex rel.
               Magone v. Browne (SC)</name> writes motion that bill of exceptions signed by Browne
            be made part of record. He signs "Campbell &amp; Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-03'>Monday, February 3, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys three yards Irish Linen
            ($2.63), 16 yards cotton cloth ($2), pair of side combs for 50&#162;, and $10.75 in
               groceries.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-05'>Wednesday, February 5, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln argues his motion of January 16, 1845 for leave to assign cross
            errors in <name type='case'>Broadwell et al. v. Broadwell et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-06'>Thursday, February 6, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Supreme Court overrules Lincoln's motion in <name type='case'>Broadwell et al. v. Broadwell et al.</name> Case is argued by Smedes
            for plaintiffs and Lincoln and Baker for defendants, who lose when court reverses lower
            court decree.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-08'>Saturday, February 8, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Hall v. Irwin et al.</name> is continued by consent of
            Minshall for plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant. Case, appealed from Sangamon County,
            involves want of power in administrator to convey real estate and title under will.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-10'>Monday, February 10, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>Thomas v. Negus (SC)</name>, Lincoln
            for plaintiff with Martin argues demurrer to writ of error. Case is settled January 10,
            1846, and Lincoln's only connection with it is on this day.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln's account is charged $3.12 for trimmings taken up by Biddle,
            Lincoln's tailor.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-11'>Tuesday, February 11, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys half pound of gunpowder tea (75&#162;).<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-02-12'>Wednesday, February 12, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Robbins,
  attorney for plaintiff in <name type='case'>Lockridge v. Foster
  (SC)</name>, moves court to amend decree in relation to interest. Lincoln
  resist motion.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> With Joseph Gillespie, Lincoln examines Stanislaus P.
  LaLumiere, and recommends him for license to practice law.
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A367' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Recommendation for
  Admittance of Stanislaus P. Lalumiere to the Practice of Law</xref>, 12
  February 1845, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
  1:343-44.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-13'>Thursday, February 13, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Morgan v. Griffin (SC)</name>, case from Scott County
            involving procedure, is argued by Jordan and McDougall for plaintiff in error and
            Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-14'>Friday, February 14, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Cook v. Hall (SC)</name>, ejectment case from Richland
            County, is argued by Lincoln for plaintiff and Baker for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-15'>Saturday, February 15, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Argument is concluded by Lincoln in <name type='case'>Cook
               v. Hall</name>. At later date lower court judgment is affirmed. <name type='case'>Field et al. v. Rawlings (SC)</name>, action of debt on surety bond,
            is argued by Lincoln for plaintiff and by Trumbull and McDougall for defendant. Case is
            submitted to court. (Lincoln wins case when judgment is reversed February 24,
               1845.)<bibl default='NO'>Record; 6 Ill. 581.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln buys 50&#162; pair scissors.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-17'>Monday, February 17, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Plaintiff is ordered to file abstracts in <name type='case'>Blankenship v. Center (SC)</name> by February 24, 1845. Logan &amp; Lincoln are
            attorneys for plaintiff. <name type='case'>Rogers v. Dickey (SC)</name>,
            appeal from Sangamon County, is submitted to court on written arguments by Scammon for
            plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-18'>Tuesday, February 18, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Appellant is ruled to assign errors by February 19, 1845 in <name type='case'>Cunningham v. Fithian et al. (SC)</name>. J. J. Brown and
            McRoberts represent appellant and Lincoln, Logan, and Baker appellees.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln wrote reply in case in 1844, but action was postponed. Lincoln
            writes reply to petition, signing "Thomas &amp; Lincoln," in<name type='case'>Farmers and Mechanics Insurance Co. et al. v. Young (SC)</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
               DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-19'>Wednesday, February 19, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Court overrules Robbins' motion made February 12, 1845 in <name type='case'>Lockridge v. Foster</name>. Robbins represents plaintiff and Lincoln
               defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys pair "Kid slippers,"
               $1.25.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-21'>Friday, February 21, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears in his first case from Cook County when he argues for
            plaintiff in <name type='case'>Kelly v. Garrett (SC)</name>. Logan
            appears for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-22'>Saturday, February 22, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln concludes argument in <name type='case'>Kelly v.
               Garrett</name> and case is submitted. He wins case when judgment of Circuit Court is
               reversed.<bibl default='NO'>6 Ill. 649.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Robbins, for plaintiff in <name type='case'>Lazell v.
               Francis (SC)</name>, renews motion that judgment be amended so that case may be
            remanded. Lincoln resists, and court denies motion.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-02-24'>Monday,
  February 24, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> William Thomas, attorney for plaintiff
  in <name type='case'>Regnier v. Cabot (SC)</name>, suggests
  marriage of defendant with E. C. Torrey since commencement of suit and moves he
  be made defendant; court allows motion. Lincoln enters appearance of defendant.
  He resists petition for rehearing in <name type='case'>McDonald
  v. Fithian et al.</name> 
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-02-27'>Thursday, February 27, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> After decision is read in <name type='case'>Graves v. Bruen
               (SC)</name>, Lincoln moves case be remanded for new trial. He writes and files
            petition for rehearing of <name type='case'>Rogers v. Dickey</name>.
            Appellant in <name type='case'>Dockum v. Throckmorton and Everett
            (SC)</name> having failed to file record, Lincoln moves appeal be dismissed. Motion
            allowed with costs against appellant.<bibl default='NO'>Record;
               Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, with associates in <name type='case'>Lane v. Dorman
               (SC)</name>, Edward Jones and Samuel D. Marshall, accepts from William Dorman and
            wife bond for deed worth $1,200. If they win, land covered by deed will be theirs. If
            they lose, they will charge reasonable fee.<bibl default='NO'>File.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>