A Collection Of Reports Of Celebrated Trials Civil And Criminal Edited PDF Download

Excerpt from A Collection Reports Celebrated Trials, Vol. 1: Civil and Criminal, Edited, With Introductions and Notes My object in preparing this volume of Reports is simply to present for the use of the Profession generally, in a convenient form, a Collection of some of the more important and interesting Trials of modern date. It is well known that there is no publication now in existence which exactly carries out this object. The result is, that if a trial be not published in a separate form at the time, it is afterwards practically inaccessible to any one who for professional or other purposes may be desirous of referring to it. Even when published separately, the Reports are often, after the lapse of a few years, very difficult to meet with, and expensive to purchase. The plan of this work is, therefore, to collect together some of those trials now either scattered abroad in a separate form, and long since out of print, or not reported at all. In dealing with the Trials thus collected I have endeavoured, whilst eliminating everything that is irrelevant, to preserve almost entire the evidence touching on the main points of the case. Where there have been more than one report I have carefully compared and collated the different accounts together, sifting and condensing the evidence so as to bring the case within a reasonable compass. In this I have experienced the greatest difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.