Excerpt from A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury Space has not allowed a full statement of the statutes and rules of court of other jurisdictions than New York; but I trust that I have indicated the existence of such statutes in such a way that the intelligent practitioner in any jurisdiction cannot be misled. In making up a list of Useful Authorities on Evidence (division I have not confined myself to stating what I deem to be settled law, deem ing it there more useful to index concisely the best authorities, including some debatable points, rather than to take space to state each rule at length. 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.