ON THE LAW OF AS ADMINISTERED IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SCOTCH, INDIAN, AMERICAN BY HIS HONOUR THE LATE JUDGE PITT TAYLOR. NINTH EDITION By G. PITT-LEWIS, Q.C., SOMETIME HOLDER OF THE STUDENTSHIP OF THE FOUR INNS OF COURT; RECORDER OF POOLE; A BENCHER OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE; Author of "A Complete County Court Practice;" Joint Author of "The Insane and the Law," &c. Longum iter est per præcepta, Breve et efficax per exempla.-SENECA. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: SWEET AND MAXWELL, LTD., 3, CHANCERY LANE, MANCHESTER: MEREDITH, RAY & LITTLER. DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS & Co. LD. AND E. PONSONBY. PREFACE. THE text of the last Edition of Taylor on Evidence consisted of 1,600 pages; the present Edition has been reduced by nearly one fourth of this bulk, and only contains 1,234 pages of Text. The general arrange ment of the Work and Index has not been altered. The Editor has, however, in one solitary instance, ventured to throw two chapters into one (the chapters contained in former Editions on the Best Evidence and on Secondary Evidence now forming only one chapter, treating of the general rule that the best evidence of which a case is capable must always be produced); and he has also amplified the "Summary" into an Analysis which clearly brings out the completeness with which the Author mapped out in this Work the whole of the Law of Evidence. The decisions and enactments of the ten years which have elapsed since the last Edition have, it is hoped, all been noted up in their respective places. Moreover, it is believed that no legal proposition, which is still accurate, has been excised. In consequence of the great use which is made of the Work in the United States and in Canada, and of the growing importance of the decisions in the Courts of those countries which are required for citation in the Courts there, but are not expected to be cited in England |