Excerpt from A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law, Whether of a Legal, or of an Equitable Nature, Including Their Relations and Application to Actions and Defenses in General, Vol. 1: Whether in Courts of Common Law, or Courts of Equity; And Equally Adapted to Courts Governed by Codes To collect and present these principles in as extensive a man ner as practicable, and to give as full illustrations of the rules, with their proper exceptions, qualifications and modifications, is the object of the present work. The cases cited will be taken indiscriminately from the English reports, from those of the United States courts, and from those of the several States. The value of authorities thus collected and arranged will be evident to every lawyer. 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.