Excerpt from Trial Evidence, Vol. 1: The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the Trial of Civil Actions, Including Both Causes of Action and Defenses at Common Law, in Equity and Under the Codes of Procedure In the preface to the first edition of this work Mr. Abbott stated that he assumed that the reader is familiar With the general principles of the Law of Evidence and is concerned with their proper application in actual practice, and that he had accordingly sought to state the most useful, con venient and trustworthy rules as to the mode of proof of each material fact in all the great classes of actions and defenses, and to illustrate and Support these rules by a selection of authorities drawn from the decisions and the works of the best text-writers. He further stated that if he had laid down these rules With somewhat more conciseness and certainty than is usual in law treatises, it was not because he had consciously deferred too much to the authority of reported cases but because he believed that the main rules of proof 'now administered by our courts are capable of clear and precise statement upon authority which Will usually be controlling at m'si prius. 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.