Excerpt from A Treatise on the American Law of Guardianship: Of Minors and Persons of Unsound Mind This work, also, embodies the experience of many years of active application. Of the principles discussed therein, and owes its existence to the necessity of acquainting myself with the underlying principles determining the powers and duties, the rights and liabilities of guardians. Painfully aware, as I am, of its short-comings and limita tions, I venture to offer the work to the public, in the hope that it may be received in that spirit of kind for bearance of criticism which was extended to my work on Administration; and that it may sometimes be of assist ance to judges and practitioners in dealing with the ques tions, growing daily in frequency and importance, touching this branch of the law. 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.