Elementary Law (Classic Reprint)

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.