Excerpt from A Treatise on the Civil Jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace, in the State of New York The continual errors which many justices run into, in their proceedings, under the law which confers their Civil jurisdic tion. Prove that they want an explanation of that law in their hands. It is impossible that it should be otherivise. A law of such magnitude cannot carry every exposition on its breast. The very terms of art made use of, have called forth folios of explanation and comment, applicable to our higher tribunals; and volumes have been written to explain and il lustrate questions of not more difliculty, than those which oc cur every day in justices' courts. Men of the first profession al abilities, do not agree in every point much less are we to expect a uniformity of opinion from men unaccustomed to lee gal investigation. Such men, however, are, in the contempla tion of the legislature, to carry this law into effect. Lawyers obtain knowledge from books, and justices would be more than men, if they could acquire it in any other way. 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.