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Searching two million pages of trial text would have been impossible for any individual until Gale Digital Collections. Employing the dynamic Gale search functionality that librarians and their patrons across the world have come to trust — and new technology that identifies subtle differences in the actual text as it appeared in the original documents — our newest online reference collection allows researchers to find books, text and authors more quickly and accurately. The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 redefines how researchers access the most influential trials of this time period.

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Basic Search
Simply type in a term of interest in the entry field and click on the Search button. Basic searches are the broadest and often return the most results.

Basic Searches allow users to pinpoint their search by entering either or both of the following limiters:

• Date of publication
• Subject

Advanced Search
Researchers will like the Boolean search functionality of the Advanced Search. By combining or excluding search terms, author, title, full text, front matter, main text, back-of-book indexes, publisher and place of publication, users can pinpoint their searches and have more targeted results than a Keyword Search.

A "fuzzy search" option expands the search to include words similar to search terms entered, thereby accommodating for spelling variations. Think of a fuzzy search in terms of how similar one word is to another. To change a word into another characters can be added, deleted or replaced. A single degree is one change to one character. Two degree is changes to two characters, and so on up to four. The higher the degree, the greater margin of error, presenting the researcher with more results.

Advanced Search allow users to limit their search by entering any or all of the following limiters:

• Date of publication
• Subject
• Language
• Illustrated works
• Document number

Browse Works
This search allows researchers to search by works names, subjects or browse an alphabetical listing of titles with the results list showing matching works

Search Results
All matching search results are returned as citations. Citations are presented 10 to a page (or more depending on preference). The total number of citations is also noted at the top of page.

Researchers may click on the citation title to access the work. Digital facsimiles, or images of the book's pages are presented and may be viewed on screen, saved (or marked) for later reference, printed and create a bookmark for future use such as reading lists or directing other researchers to this search.