Excerpt from A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, With Second and Third Volumes, Vol. 1 of 3: Containing Precedents of Pleadings, and an Appendix of Forms Adapted to the Recent Pleading and Other With Practical Notes The Editor was induced to adopt that course, because sufficient reason appeared to him to exist for not presenting to the Profession in the United States a set of Precedents, which, in the numerous jurisdictions of the Union, would not be considered as having the stamp of authority. He still thinks that his view was correct, and has adhered to it in preparing the present edition. The Precedents under the New Rules are very con cise and convenient; but it would be presumption in the Editor, upon his own view of their superior utility, to offer them instead of those which, from long adoption and use, have the weight of judicial decision. An Appendix of Forms in Assumpsit, adapted to the New Rules, from the second volume of the new London edition, is inserted at the end of the third volume of the seventh American, and of this edition. 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.