The General Principles Of The Law Of Evidence With Their Application To The Trial Of Civil Actions At Common Law PDF Download

Excerpt from The General Principles of the Law of Evidence With Their Application to the Trial of Civil Actions at Common Law, in Equity and Under the Codes of Civil Procedure of the Several States, Vol. 1 of 2: An Appendix to Volume 2, Contains the Code Provisions of New York and California Mr. Abbott, in the introductory paragraph of his Trial Evi dence, indicates the self-imposed limitation the distinguished author has placed upon his incomparable work he says: In this volume I 'assume that the reader is familiar with the general principles of the law of evidence. This is a safe postulate with the intellectual Titans of the bar; and to those who are to-day the recognized primates of professional capacity, it may well apply; but what can we assume for the vast mass of the rank and file, including those who are just entering upon their professional career, or are struggling through the first years of an arduous and exacting practice, limited as to time and means for the fullest assimilation of such general principles, to say noth ing of the other reader's who now and then need to refresh their familiarity? 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.