Excerpt from Principia Prima Legum, Vol. 1: Or, an Enunciation and Analysis of the Elementary Principles of Law, in Its Several Departments Alike in the judgment, and in the argument upon a disputed point, but more especially in the former, ought these principles to be kept in view; and the more perfectly any legal axiom is in accordance with reason, the more correct and unerring must it necessarily be. Extraordinary, therefore, it is, that while the digests of decided cases relating to every branch of the law are so numerous and so elaborately compiled, no complete systematic analysis has as yet been attempted of the first principles of law. In reality, however, the great attention at present paid to the records of cases determined by our courts only renders an inquiry into elementary principles the more essential. 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.