Select Biographical Sketches: From the Note-Books of a Law Reporter (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Select Biographical Sketches: From the Note-Books of a Law Reporter

The practice of entering in Note-books used by lawyers in Court, matters totally foreign to merely legal cases is as old as Lord Chancellor Nottingham, who related that he had done so in 1656, and up to the time of the Restoration. A collection of ms. Notes by him, formerly in the posses sion of the late Mr. Hargreaves, not only comprises the notes of Chancery cases taken by him for his own use and study, but also matters of a very different character - such.

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Excerpt from Select Biographical Sketches: From the Note-Books of a Law Reporter

The following Sketches - for they pretend to little more than the word imports - were, at the time they were penned, thrown off without any intention of seeking for literary fame as the result of their publication.

I entreat my readers to bear this in remembrance.

The earlier ones appeared in a legal weekly periodical at the end of last year, and were received with some favour by many of its readers.

I was subsequently advised to collect them in a separate form, to re-cast, and to enlarge them, as better adapted for more general circulation and perusal. This I have now done, and have added perhaps the more attractive feature to the Essays - Photographic Portraits of the eminent men upon whose lives and talents I have thus ventured to comment.

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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.