Excerpt from Commentaries on the Laws of Moses, Vol. 1 of 4 The "Mosaisches Recht" of the learned Michaelis, of which a Translation is, with till the diffidence becoming a first attempt, here presented to the public, was originally published at Frankfort on the Mayn, in six parts, or volumes, between the years 1770 and 1775; and it appears, from the list of the author's works annexed to Professor Hassencamp's Collection of Memoirs relative to his life and writings, (for a copy of which Collection the translator is indebted to the friendship of Sir Joseph Banks, ) that a second edition of the first five parts was completed between 1775 and 1780, and that the work had, before the year 1793, been translated into Dutch and Danish. 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.