Excerpt from Leading Cases Made Easy: A Selection of Leading Cases in the Common Law, With Notes The work now submitted to law students differs considerably from other collections of leading cases. In the first place, the number of cases is much larger. "Fifty or sixty leading cases," says the late Mr. Samuel Warren, "thoroughly understood and distinctly recollected, will be found of incalculable value in practice; serving as so many sure landmarks placed upon the trackless wilds of law. And why should not the number be doubled I or even trebled? What pains can be too great to secure such a result?" My object has been to bring together and to elucidate the 150 cases of most general importance in the Common Law. And, however far short of that object I may have fallen, I think it will be admitted that any student whose diligence enables him to master their names and principles will have laid for himself a good foundation of legal learning. The present work differs also in style. I have adopted it as likely to arrest the attention, aid the memory, and make the study of the law less dry and repulsive. "That I have written in a semi-humorous vein," says an eminent authority, "shall need no apology, if thereby sound teaching wins a hearing from the million. There is no particular virtue in being seriously unreadable." Moreover, now and then, in the stating of a case certain deviations from strict accuracy may be discovered. Such deviations (except, of course, where I may have been unfortunate enough to fall into errors) have been made on the "reading made easy" principle. 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.