YAZOO CITY, a city of western Mississippi, U.S.A., about midway between Memphis and New Orleans, on the (navigable) Yazoo river ; the county seat of Yazoo county. It is on Federal highway 49, and is served by the Illinois Central railroad. Pop. 5,244 in 1920 (52% Negroes) ; 5,579 in 1930 by the Federal census. At the eastern entrance to the rich "Delta" between the Yazoo and the Mississippi rivers, it is an important market and shipping point. The city was founded about 1830.
a term applied to annual summaries either of events throughout the world during the previous year or of gen eral or local progress in some one department of administration, art, science or industry. Examples are The Britannica Book of the Year, The Statesman's Year-Book, Annual Register, Whitaker's Almanack, The World Almanac, biographical records like Who's Who, genealogical records such as those of Debrett and Burke, and the Continental Almanach de Gotha, a scientific and scho lastic publication of the type of the Index Generalis, and the in numerable specialized economic and industrial publications.
The English legal Year Books, described by Pollock as "our glory, for no other country has anything like them," are reports of cases covering the period 1292 to 1534, written in provincial French. Abridgments of these Year Books were made by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert in 1516 and by Sir Robert Brooke in 1568. The first systematic printer of them was Richard Pynson, from 1510; the principal publisher, from 1553, was Richard Tottell. In 1863 A. J. Horwood was commissioned by the then master of the Rolls to edit the unpublished Year Books of Edward I. This Rolls series was continued by L. 0. Pike. The work has been supplemented by Maitland and others working for the Selden So ciety. The most convenient brief discussions of the Year Books are in Holdsworth's History of English Law (1903-09), vol. ii., PP. and W. C. Bolland's The Year Books (1921). They are now thought to have had an official or even semi-official character.