Excerpt from A Treatise on the Constitution and Jurisdiction of the United States Courts on Pleading, Practice, and Procedure Therein, and on the Powers and Duties of United States Commissioners, Vol. 1 of 2: With Rules of Court and Forms The jurisdiction, pleading and practice of the Court of Claims have heretofore received no Special treatment by any author, if we except the valuable monograph of the Hon. William A. Richardson, one of its judges, from which, with his permission, we have freely Oopied in the notes in treating these subj It is believed that the practitioner will find in this volume all that will be necessary to guide him to practice in this court. 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.