Excerpt from Law Books and How to Use Them The purpose of this book is given in the Intro duction. I can only reiterate my hope that it may prove useful by giving information, which, though it seems very simple when put into print, is still of such nature, that want of it is a serious handicap in the study and practice of the Law. 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.

Excerpt from Brief Making and the Use of Law Books The failure Of the law schools to turn out graduates better prepared for the practical work of the office or court-room is an old and ever recurring theme of complaint from bench and bar. The recent graduate himself, wrestling with his earliest practical problems, is especially prone to lay his troubles at the door of the law school. Without stopping to inquire in what other directions the law school has come short of its duty to the student, law teachers generally must concede that while a knowledge of law books and their use - in short, brief-making, in its broader sense is an essential professional acquirement, this field is yet, for the average law-school graduate, a vast waste of uncharted and unexplored territory. Following precedent, the teacher has been content to lay before the student, in the form of lectures, text-books or cases, or these combined, principles of the teacher's own choosing; but little or no necessity for sus taining or combating a particular proposition by written argu ment is encountered by the student while in the law school. The result has been that the student enters upon the practice. 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.

Excerpt from The Law of Agency It has long been the custom of law writers, follow ing perhaps the example of the early pioneers of the craft, to write text books for the enlightenment of practicing la/wyers. Within the past quarter century or so law writers have included in their hoped-for audience law students as well as lawyers. The result has not been as happy as might be desired, for law yers nowadays have little use for elementary text books of law - the great digests, encyclopedias, and many-volumed texts having almost completely sup planted the less ambitious work. The real situation is that the great majority of readers of such works are law students. But a book designed primarily for lawyers, and only as an afterthought for students, is not a successful students' book. A book for beginners should, we believe, be written with the needs of the beginner constantly in mind. It must be simple and concise - as happy in the choice of what to eliminate as what to retain. It must pre sent the fundamental principles clearly and vividly to the reader. 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.

Excerpt from The Lawyer's Reference Manual of Law Books and Citations The preparation of this work was begun when the idea first suggested itself, but the occupations of a busy life have delayed its completion. In 1876 my father, Richard Soule (author of A Dictionary of English Synonymes and other books of reference), came to my assistance, and had nearly prepared the manuscript for the printer when his death occurred in 1877. His aid was so valuable that the book would have been published in his name if he had lived to carry it through the press. 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.

Excerpt from Elementary Law IN preparing this new edition of a work which, in one form or another, has been in use among law students for the past forty years, the author has kept constantly in mind the fact that the ordinary and legitimate purpose of such students is to qualify themselves to begin the practice of the law with credit to their profession, with safety to their clients, and with profit to themselves. The young practitioner is not expected to be a legal philosopher or historian or critic, but to be able to give sound advice upon those legal questions which arise in common social and domestic life, to transact customary legal business with prudence and sagacity, and to conduct to a just issue such liu'gated cases as are likely to be confided to his care. To fit him to discharge these duties he needs an accurate and fairly extensive knowledge of the general rules and doctrines which constitute the great body of the law; a special familiarity with those departments of the law which govern the commercial transactions of the present day; and a practical training in those forms and methods of procedure which it will be his daily duty to employ. 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.

Excerpt from The First Principles of Law The aim of this book is to set out in as plain and simple a manner as possible, and' in what the author ventures to think 18 a somewhat more philosophical arrangement than the usually accepted one of Blackstone, the most general and elementary principles of the law. It was written primarily for the use of the author's students beginning the study of the law; but it is hoped that it may be of service to students of law elsewhere, as well as possibly to readers who without intending to become lawyers wish to get a knowledge in outline of the nature and methods of legal science. It is not designed to take the place of the laiger and more complete treatises with which students generally, begin the1r legal studies, but rather to be used in connec tion with them: and for this reason many subjects have been omitted, such as Agency, Partnership and the greater part of the Law of Persons, which, though 01 the greatest interest and importance in themselves, may still be looked upon as being, so to speak, detachable from the main fabric of legal principles and affording merely special applications of rules and principles which the student ought to understand before he comes to the study of those special branches. 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.

Excerpt from Introduction to American Law But I have entitled this book, an Introduction to American Law, and I may be called upon to vindicate the propriety of this title. I confess then, that in some minor respects, it may not be equally adapted to all parts of the Union; but my excuse is, that without being ten times as large as it is, 'it could not have been made so. If I had possessed the knowledge, I could not, within any reasonable compass, have referred to the local law of twenty-six different states; and yet local references were occasionally necessary, in order to exhibit an entire system. I was compelled, therefore, in such cases, to make choice of some particular state; and I naturally selected that state in which the lectures were read. But these local references, in an out line so general as this, are not so frequent as to detract materially from the general adaptation of the book, to students in other states; and in case of diversity, the necessary corrections can be easily made. At all events, the diversity is less between the different states, than between any one state and England; and therefore something is cer tainly gained even on the score of general adaptation. And here let me anticipate an objection of another sort. It may be said, that in attempting to teach what the law is, I have dwelt too much upon what I think it should be; or, in other words, that in a work professedly didactic, I have speculated too much upon projects of reform. To this objection I have two answers. In the first place, I have never undertaken to show what the law ought to be, without first stating what it is. While therefore the primary end of instruo tion is obtained, the mind of the student is at the same time excited to compare, examine and discuss the principles in question; and thus impress them the more deeply upon his memory. And in the second place, if the suggestions I have ventured to make be sound, they can not be made too early, because bad laws are the very worst of bad things; and if these suggestions be not sound, they can do no harm, because the antidote accompanies the bane; nay the provision com plained of will inspire increased confidence in the mind of the student from having been unsuccessfully assailed. But I cannot help believing that many of the proposed alterations would be decided improvements. 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.

Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of Law The following pages are the result of a de sire on the part of the writer to bring together in concise form such information as he has felt would be of particular assistance to students just entering upon the study of law. The student during his earlier efforts seems to have some difficulty in learning where and how to find the law, and to have much greater diffi culty in attaining and keeping the legal point of View. 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.

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