Excerpt from The Origin and Growth of the Common Law in England and America: A Study of Private Law, Comparing the Evolution of the Common Law and the Civil Law No one knows better than myself that this book is at best only an introduction, but a good introduction to law has a real place to fill. The authorities before each lecture are themselves only a selection, a selection which individual tastes would perhaps vary, but at least they will enable students to go further into the subjects discussed. Space compelled the. Limitation of cases to those in the Supreme Court. The Tables are useful, but necessarily brief and probably omit some. Men and events which others would think appropriate; they can be enlarged at will. 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.