The Common Law Of England Vol 1 Of 2 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Complete Practice of the Law of England, as Established by the Recent Statutes, Orders, Rules, &C, Vol. 2: The Practice of the Law of Evidence IN this Treatise on the Practice of the Law of Evi dence I have endeavoured to state, clearly and concisely, all those principles of this branch of law which are of most frequent and practical importance in the Courts. It is apparent that a compendium of a subject which has been exhausted by such writers as Phillipps, Taylor, Starkie, and Roscoe, can have little pretension to originality, and I am bound to acknowledge the great extent of my obligation to all these authors, and especially to the elaborate works of the two former gentlemen. There are few legal topics which afford a modern writer any ground for claiming the merit of originality in the treatment of them and I have no wish to advance any such claim. At the same time, I may be permitted to disclaim all intentional plagiarism, and to state, that whenever I have availed myself of the learning and labours of my predecessors, I have studious] y acknowledged, and beg to repeat my acknow ledgment of, the debt. The plan of stating fundamental principles, and of illustrating them by leading cases, is, perhaps, to a certain extent, original; and I may also add, that I have endeavoured anxiously to mark dis [evl] A. 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.