Excerpt from The Civil Liability: For Personal Injuries Arising Out of Negligence In the preparation of the present edition, the text of the work has been revised, all errors discovered corrected, and obsolete and redundant matter expunged. A great amount of new matter has been added under the respective section heads, and a number of supplementary sections inserted. The cases, reported since the publication of the first edition, have been examined, and about seventeen hundred citations from the decisions of the courts of last resort added to the work. Gratefully acknowledging the favor with which the the first edition of the book has been received, the author believes that its thorough revision, and the additions made to it in the present edition, will be found materially to have increased its value, both to the student and the practising 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.