BEING

A COMPLETE AND SYSTEMATIC STATEMENT

OF

THE WHOLE BODY OF THE LAW

AS EMBODIED IN AND
DEVELOPED BY

ALL REPORTED DECISIONS

EDITED BY

WILLIAM MACK, Ll.d.

Editor-in-Chief of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure

AND

WILLIAM BENJAMIN HALE, LL.B.

Contributing Editor of the American and English Encyclopædia of Law
and the Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice

The law is progressive and expansive, adapting itself
to the new relations and interests which are constantly
springing up in the progress of society. But this prog-
ress must be by analogy to what is already settled.

GREENE, C.J., in 1 R. I. 356.

VOLUME VIII

New York

THE AMERICAN LAW BOOK CO.
London: Butterworth & Co., Bell Yard

1916

Copyright, 1916

By The American Law Book Company

L 7603

UN 29 1933

PRINTED FOR A. L. B. Co.

ΤΟ

CHARLES WALTER DUMONT, LL.D.

the author of the plan of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure, the inspiration of the organization which brought that work to completion, and whose creative genius has evolved the plan of Corpus Juris, these volumes are dedicated.