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totius operis fides uniuscujusque periodi fide niteretur.

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1811.

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ADVERTISEMENT

To the first American Edition of the corrected and enlarged London Copy.

THE proprietor and publisher of this work has endeavoured to bring

forward an edition which should not fail to gratify the Profession, both in regard to its form and price and the value of its contents. To this end he has employed Gentlemen of the Bar carefully to examine the most respectable American Authorities on the several subjects treated of in the original work, and to add proper Notes with References to Judicial Decisions and existing Laws in this country. These American Notes are referred to by marks like these *, t, t, tt, II, &c.—those of the author by figures and letters.

By reference to the Preface the reader will see that the author has made such alterations and additions in his last edition, from which this is printed, as to render it almost a new and different work. And it may be further remarked, that besides the two new chapters, the additional notes, and the index, particularly mentioned by the author, there are material variations from the former impressions; as frequent instances were found, on comparison, in which whole paragraphs and sometimes whole pages of new matter (containing the latest cases) have been inserted in the body of the work. Consequently the labour and expense of completing this edition have somewhat exceeded the publisher's first calculations.

The errours of the press, noted in the London edition, escaped notice in reading the first volume: they are not very material, however; and most of them (except such amendments as the author made in the Errata) were found on inspection to have been corrected. And by a careful examination of the proof-sheets, many and much greater errours, which were not pointed out in the London Errata, have been corrected in this edition. The errours of the London copy as first above-mentioned are corrected, however, in the Errata on the next page, together with one in the second volume not mentioned in the Errata of any former edition; and the publisher believes, that considering the variety of reference and citations to be made and examined in collecting and editing a work of this nature, this edition will be found, on the whole, more accurate than the generality of similar books, either English or American.

THE great and general utility of a work like this, brought as near as possible to American practice will be admitted by all. How far he has succeeded in his endeavour to effect this object, the publisher submits to the candor and discernment of the Profession.

N. B. The PAGES in this edition are numbered so as to correspond with · those in the English.

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