Excerpt from The Law of Usages and Customs: With Illustrative Cases Another word as to the form of the book. I have called the work a treatise, although I have presented it in the form of illustrative or leading cases, with notes. But in doing this I have not misnamedx it in order to obtain for my work a more dignified title. The notes are my treatise. If any one should object that he is called upon to pay for one hundred and fifty pages of cases taken bodily from the reports which are at his hand in his own library, or which he can consult else where, I shall simply reply that he obtains them without any extra charge. In order to admit them into my book, the notes are printed in a type three sizes smaller than that in which legal treatises are ordina rily printed. Thus, while neither its size nor its cost to the profession has been increased at all, I am satisfied that its usefulness to the many members of the bar who are unable to obtain access to a complete library of reports will be greater in its present than it would have been in the more usual form of a legal text - book. And even those who can obtain in their original volumes all the cases I have here reprinted. Will hardly refuse to recognize the desirability of having within the covers of a single volume all the leading cases upon this branch of the law. I have endeavored to accomplish this and by quoting freely from the opinions of the judges, by making the statements of the facts of most of the cases cited minute as well as correct, and by embracing all the adjudications on the subject, I have aimed to make my book take the place, for the judge and practitioner, not alone of a treatise, but of the original reports of the several thousand adjudications on the law of usages and customs which it contains. 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.