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Excerpt from Essays in the Law
These papers, written at various times in the last thirty years or so, are now collected at the instance of certain learned friends. As the title denotes, the treatment is from a lawyer's point of view throughout, but the subject-matter is strictly professional in only two or three cases, and may be not less interesting on the whole to historical than to legal students.
Supplemental matter is in the main confined to the notes, and the text left to speak as at the date of first publication. Lapse of time is, however, now and then smoothed over by the change of a few words, and in the account of Arabiniana, that strange little book which fulfils all the conditions of a law report quotable in court, though it is of no conceivable use for that purpose, the biographical details are amended from later information.
References to the places of original publication (a thing I have often missed in other men's works) are given throughout for the convenience of cataloguers and bibliographers, whose deserving labours are not yet sufficiently recognised and assisted in the world of letters.
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