Excerpt from Principles of Torts and Contracts, Vol. 1 of 3: A Short Digest of the Common Law, Chiefly Founded Upon the Works of Addison, With Illustrative Cases In the present work, which is designed to meet the require ments of the student, I have endeavoured to set forth the first principles of the Common Law in as brief and axiomatic a form as possible, and to each chapter I' have appended a short summary of cases, which may serve to illustrate the principal positions laid down in the text. 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.