A Digest Of Cases Decided And Reported In The Supreme Court Of Judicature

Author : George Wilson Waterhouse
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390872750
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court, Court of Insolvency, and the Courts of Mines and Vice-Admiralty of the Colony of Victoria, From 1861 to 1885 (Classic Reprint) written by George Wilson Waterhouse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Digest of Reported Cases in the Supreme Court, Court of Insolvency, and the Courts of Mines and Vice-Admiralty of the Colony of Victoria, From 1861 to 1885 IN presenting this Digest to the Profession and to the Public, the Compilers venture to hope that they have, in some measure, supplied a long-felt want. It will be seen that the book follows' very closely on the lines of Fisher's Digest, although in some parts of the work, such as Land Acts, Lunatic, Mining, Transfer of Land, and Justices of the Peace, the headings have been arranged according to the points decided, and to the arrangement and subdivision of the Statutes affecting such subjects. The heading, Practice and Pleading, includes many cases which are not so useful under the Judicature Act of 1883, and Rules, as under the old system; but the Compilers have felt it their duty to make the book what it professes to be, viz a Digest of all the cases; and they venture to hope that they have kept the cases decided under the different systems perfectly distinct, and to think that points of practice and pleading decided under the old system will still, in many instances, be found useful. As to cases decided under Statutes which have been repealed or re-enacted, small footnotes have, in most instances, been inserted, to draw attention to the present Legislation on the various subjects. The frequent use of cross references may be considered rather cumbrous and undesirable, but the Compilers have found by actual test that different persons will look under different headings for the same information and they must give as their reason for filling up so much of the work with cross references - a wish to accommodate, as far as ossible, all who may refer to it. Great inconvenience has been occasioned by the inability of the printers to keep set up more than two or three sheets at one time. This has in nearly every instance prevented a reference to the column in the cross reference, when the abstract of the case itself has come in a later part of the work than the reference. In several instances, too, the case itself has after some consideration been put under a different sub-heading from that fixed at the time of the reference; for this reason indulgence must be asked for the large number of corrigenda which relate, as will be seen, almost exclusively to cross references. Attention is directed to the Addenda, where a few cases and cross references, inadvertently omitted from the body of the work, will be found. 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.