Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CAMBRIDGE: PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. The sec THE first edition of this work, published in 1849, has been the foundation of all the succeeding ones. ond was published in 1854; the third, in 1867. The present edition is believed to contain references to most of the important decisions in England and in this country that have appeared since the edition of 1867. In preparing it for the press, I have been ably assisted by Mr. E. S. DRONE, of the New York Bar, whose abstracts of the recent decisions and of the statute of 1870 have been made and adapted to my text, with clearness and precision. NEW YORK, November 1, 1873. |