Oct 9 CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE COURT FOR THE TRIAL OF IMPEACHMENTS AND CORRECTION OF ERRORS, IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. BY GEORGE CAINES, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, AND REPORTER TO THE STATE. PRINTED BY HOPKINS AND SEYMOUR, POR I. RILEY AND CO. BOOKSELLERS, NO. I, CITY-HOTEL, BROADWAY. 1805. 32 J District of New-York, 88. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighteenth day of January, in the twenty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, GEORGE CAINES, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words and figure following, to wit: "Cases argued and determined in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments "and Correction of Errors, in the State of New-York. "BY GEORGE CAINES, "Counsellor at Law, and Reporter to the State. "VOL. I." IN conformity to the Act of the Congress of the said United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by "securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Au"thors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein "mentioned." EDWARD DUNSCOMB, Clerk of the District of New-York. PREFACE. THE HE Decisions now offered to the Public, are the Judgments of a Court of dernier resort, and of the highest importance. To be acquainted with determinations of inferior Tribunals, would be of scarcely any utility, if those of this were unknown. It is from hence we are to receive the Supreme Law of the land for such its opinions may well be termed; because, however our Legislature may enact and ordain, whatever is thus enacted and ordained, is here, in almost all cases, to be expounded and enforced. It is here that the worth of the adjudications of every other Court, is to be ascertained. It is in this mint they receive their stamp, and sterling value. The endeavours, therefore, of the Author, have been directed to collect as many of the antecedent Decisions of the Court of Errors (for, thank God! it is not yet known as one for the trial of Impeachments) as he possibly could. Those now obtained will form an introductory part to the present number. So, what may be in future acquired, will precede the Reports of the year, and though this extension of the original plan will naturally demand an increase of price, the already experienced liberality of the Bar is, on this point, a sufficient guarantee that the Work will not on this account be the less acceptable. The Deter b |