Excerpt from Commentaries on the Present Laws of England, Vol. 1 of 2 The object of this work is to give, in as comprehensive a manner as is possible within moderate limits, an account of the present laws of England. The fact that great indeed, almost revolutionary - changes have been intro duced into the theory and practice of the law in recent times, so that, as a high authority (1) has told us, the judicial spirit itself is altered, technicality after technicality is being brushed away with a rapidity only known to those who closely observe the process, and subtilties are laughed at that would have been listened to five and twenty years ago, would seem fully to justify the appearance of a work the object of which is to lay before the reader a statement of English law as it now is. 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.