The American Decisions, Vol. 1: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States From the Earliest ... Reports to the Year 1869 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The American Decisions, Vol. 1: Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority Decided in the Courts of the Several States From the Earliest Issue of the State Reports to the Year 1869

But it must not be understood that the pruning knife is ruth lessly applied; it is thought better to err rather on the side of leniency than strictness; and, therefore, to give cases which may be regarded as not possessing a very novel or leading char acter, but which, nevertheless, are of established general authority, although the points which they determine may no longer be novel. The aim is to give, by a series of continued authoritative decisions, the system of law established in each state as compared with the other states; to show, by a compila tion of contemporaneous, collated decisions, the structure and development of our American law; in fact, to give a system of American comparative jurisprudence.

In the selection of cases from our early reports, we cannot expect to find many cases that possess a novel or very practical value at the present day; but the decisions in these early re ports must ever be of rare interest to the profession, as it was then, by the enlightened judgment Of a judiciary imbued with a veneration for the English common law, that the founda tion of our American jurisprudence was laid by the adaptation of the common law to our exigencies and circumstances. It is by an examination Of these early decisions as they were adopted, modified, or enlarged by subsequent adjudications, that we are enabled to trace the structure and development of our American legal system.

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