Excerpt from Tales, Vol. 1 Of course, nothing so absurd was con templated as to attempt to supply the want of information above alluded to by a series of tales, enabling every man to become his own lawyer. The object was to point out a few of the cases in every day life where caution is necessary, and to indicate some of the shoals and quick sands which render the navigation dan gerons, and the conduct of a pilot needful. A man cannot have his legal adviser always at his elbow; and oftentimes it happens to the lawyer, as to the physician, that the evil is perpetrated and rendered irre mediable before his client comes to him. 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.