Excerpt from The Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered Before Yale University Nothing can be less ambitious than this volume. The introduction to the first lecture shows the circumstances under which the lectures were given, and the scope and purpose of the course. I have, however, added some notes in the line of further development or illustration. It might have been more artistic to have recast the whole, working the notes into the text; but if this had been done, the loss would have exceeded the gain, since the lectures thus remodelled would not have been the lectures delivered, and they would moreover have contained details not adapted to oral discourses. Besides, it is a prized privilege of the teacher to make use of the first person, as this enables him to address his hearers more directly and more forcibly than in any other way. It is of set purpose, then, that I publish the lectures in their original form. 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.