A Digest of All the Reported Cases, Both in Law and Equity, Vol. 3: Determined in the Courts of North Carolina from the Earliest Period to the Prese

Download or read book A Digest of All the Reported Cases, Both in Law and Equity, Vol. 3: Determined in the Courts of North Carolina from the Earliest Period to the Prese written by William H. Battle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Digest of All the Reported Cases, Both in Law and Equity, Vol. 3: Determined in the Courts of North Carolina From the Earliest Period to the Present Year, Together With a Table of the Names of the Cases The flattering terms in which some of the most distinguished members of the profession, who have looked over the law part of the Digest, have spoken of it, induces the Author to hope that the equity volume will meet with the same favorable reception. He has bestowed equal pains upon both, having read over every case ever reported in North-Carolina from the beginning to the end; and in making his abstracts of the points decided, he has in each respective case adopted that of the reporter, when he thought it proper, or has made one for himself, when he thought that of the reporter admitted of improvement. In preparing the table of cases, it will be seen that the Author has omitted to duplicate the number by putting the names of the defendants as well as the plaintiffs in alphabetical order. The advantage afforded by such duplication, in enabling a person who recollects the name of a defendant only to find the case more readily, is sufficiently obvious, when the table of cases is annexed to a book of reports, or to a treatise on any branch of the law, but is hardly necessary in a Digest, provided the divisions and sub-divisions of the subjects embraced in it are properly arranged. The Index to the first 88 volumes of the English Common Law Reports has no table of cases at all. Some of the Author's friends have expressed the opinion that he might well have omitted all the decisions peculiar to slaves, since slavery is now abolished in the State, but others have agreed with him that it was best to retain them. Besides the light which such decisions throw upon the history of the law of North-Carolina, they may often furnish useful analogical arguments upon existing questions of practical value. The insertion in the present volume of full and complete lists of all the Judges, Attorney Generals, and Reporters of the State, since the American Revolution, cannot be out of place in a work like the present, and it is hoped that they will add to its interest if not to its utility. 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.