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The text is confined so far as possible to a statement of the existing law in the author’s own words. From time to time the language of decided cases has been adopted, but all professed quotations and discussion of cases have been relegated to the notes. The authors thus hope that they may be able to avoid the usual vice of legal text-books. The insertion in the text of long strings of quotations from judgments, interspersed with head-notes of particular cases, tends to confusion of thought, both in the writer, who shelters himself behind the judicial phraseology, without, in many cases, attempting to find out its meaning, and in the reader, who is left to form his own conclusions, without any clear guidance. In the present work the text contains the conclusions which the authors have formed after considering the available authorities; and, at the same time, the notes, by containing the requisite illustrative quotations and statements of the facts of particular cases, will, it is believed, enable the reader to verify the authors’ conclusions for himself.
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