A Treatise on the Law of Evidence (Classic Reprint)

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Tm: design of the edito? Was, principally, to collect the decisions of the different courts in the United States, connected with the subject of the following work, the undoubted merit of which, justly entitles it to a prefer ence to all former treatises on the law of evidence. The exuberance of the subject itself, and a solicitude to Insert every thing which could be deemed useful, have swell ed the notes greatly beyond what was originally expect ed and intended; and yet the learned reader will per ceive that they might have been made still more exten sive; that much has been emitted by design, and much, no doubt, through inadvertence. All the American works of celebrity and merit have been carefully con sulted, and though some others, of a contrary descrip tion, have been entirely neglected, yet it may not be improper to apologize for a number of references to loose and obscure reporters. A few additional English authorities have been collected, and in two or three in stances it has been attempted to Supply, however imper fectly, some omissions of the author - omissions arising not from ignorance or carelessness, but from his desire to compress the work and it is uht unlikely that, upon careful examination, what might at first sight have ap peared an emission, would be found to be no other than a necessary deduction from some principle which had been before fully stated. The editor submits his la bours, such as they are, to the candour of the profes sion, and if they should be thought undeserving of ap probation, he has at least this consolation, that they can not detract from the merit of the original work.

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