The Law of Actionable Misrepresentation, Stated in the Form of a Code Followed by a Commentary and Appendices (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Law of Actionable Misrepresentation, Stated in the Form of a Code Followed by a Commentary and Appendices It has been insisted by a courtly writer of the eighteenth century that a preface to a book is, in all cases, a seemly concession to the ceremonial conventions and amenities, if not to the decencies, of literature. "A preface," he observes, "is part of the habit of a book, and no author can appear full dressed without it." The convention referred to can no longer claim the universal allegiance it enjoyed in the days of Queen Anne; but it is still true to say that a preface is expected from any work which aspires to deal with a scientific or serious subject. An explanation of this demand, conceived in a spirit of sardonic gloom and somewhat overdone modesty, is given by the late Sir Leslie Stephen, when introducing to the world his Science of Ethics: "a preface is generally the most interesting, and not seldom the only interesting, part of the book. It is useful to the hasty critic who wishes to avoid the trouble of reading at all, and to the more serious student who wishes to have the clue to the author´s speculations put into his hands at the earliest possible period." This deliverance sounds a rather harsh note, and seems gratuitously churlish to the prospective critic. The author who was accustomed to describe the lector benevolus as "that beast, the general reader," did not do so in a preface. A more graceful justification of the custom is to be found in the preface to the Examen of Roger North, who there reflects that "it is some ease to a Reader to be advertised, first, of the design the writer proposes, and next, of the Methods he hath chosen to obtain it." Adopting, then, this last and most simple and genial formula, and with the view to the "ease" of the reader, let me say at once that "the design the writer proposes" in this work is, as its title indicates, a statement of the law relating to misrepresentation, in so far as it is the subject of civil proceedings, whether at common law, or by statute. 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.
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