Amherst D. Tyssen
Published: 2015-07-04
Total Pages: 216
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Excerpt from Elementary Law: For the General Public This book is intended mainly, if not entirely, for persons who are not lawyers and do not intend to become such. But it makes no attempt to render every man his own lawyer. It aims solely at giving its readers a little information on the most elementary matters connected with law and business, which it is desirable that all persons possessing property should know. For the benefit of law students, however, references are given on many points on which references are likely to be useful. All lawyers will readily understand these references, but for the benefit of non-lawyers a few words of explanation may be added. The references indicate either Acts of Parliament or decided cases. Acts of Parliament generally have a short title and an index reference. Thus in the first chapter a reference is made to the Coinage Act, 1870, Stat. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 10. The figures here mean the tenth caput (chapter or heading) of the Acts of the Parliament held in the 83 rd and 34th years of Queen Victoria. The Parliament of 1870 sat from about February to August, and thus fell partly in the 33 rd and partly in the 34th years of her Majesty's reign. Any person taking from a shelf the volume containing the Acts of Parliament of the year 1870, could readily turn to the tenth chapter, and would find it to be an Act bearing as a short title, "The Coinage Act, 1870." 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.