Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, Vol. 1 of 3 Omitting what is purely local law, and citing only such cases as seemed necessary to illustrate and support the text. Doubtless a happier selection of these might be made, and the work might have been much better exe outed by another hand; for now it is finished, I find it but an approximation towards what was originally desired. But in the hepe that it still may be found not useless, as the germ of a better treatise, it is submitted to the candor of a liberal profession. 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.