Author : Richard Newcombe Gresley
Release : 2017-11-18
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity (Classic Reprint) by : Richard Newcombe Gresley

Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Newcombe Gresley. This book was released on 2017-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Evidence in the Courts of Equity If the Author has failed in this attempt at a lucid gement of the Decisions in Equity, he might entrench himself behind a position which learned writers and judges have frequently maintained, and which is thus expressed by Mr. F onblanque; The nature of the subject scarcely allows of its being resolved into system; we may collect and generalize the ideas which are to be found upon it; we may give them a degree of precision by rule, but cannot give to them that comprehension which is necessary to system; and indeed when we reflect that the evidence to be allowed by law should be suited to the habits, opinions, and the state of society, we cannot but expect its rules to vary with the varying exigences of the subjects to which it is to accommodate itself. Thus we find that as occasions have arisen in which the rigid application of the rule would have caused a failure of justice, the rule has given way to the occasion. (a) But the instances of the application of this doctrine have been of late years comparatively rare, and there is little ineli nation now to add to their number; indeed the Author is well satisfied that at the present time the principles of the law of evidence are too firmly based, and its parts are too systematically. Connected, to be tampered with or to fluctuate materially. One other observation may be made. It will very probably be thought, by some readers, that this Work contains too great a quantity of quotations. But the slightest investigation will show that the bulk of almost every Law Treatise consists of compilation; and the Author has thought it both more useful and more fair to sufl'er every thing borrowed by him to bear its own date and superscription, than to re-cast what belongs to others, and to issue it again with the uniform stamp of his own unestablished authority. 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.