Excerpt from The Law and Practice of Discovery in the Supreme Court of Justice: With an Appendix of Forms, Orders, Etc Had it not been for the very recent appearance of another work upon the same subject, the author would not have considered any apology necessary for the appearance of a work upon a subject, the doctrines of which have recently been so much elucidated, and the practice in which has been so greatly altered, as that of Discovery. In his opinion, of the justice of which the public must judge, there is nothing in that previous work to render his own unnecessary. It was originally intended, and was so announced, to postpone the publication of the present work until the issue of the expected new rules of practice, which would, it was understood, deal at any rate with the costs of discovery, and otherwise place some check upon the free flow of interrogatories with all their train of innumerable applications and costs. This intention was of necessity abandoned in consequence of the apparently indefinite postponement of the further consideration of the Rules. One word as to the special object of the book. 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.