Legal and Judicial History of New York, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Legal and Judicial History of New York, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Alden Chester and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Legal and Judicial History of New York, Vol. 1 In the first volume of this work the attempt has been made to record chronologically and with as much thoroughness as the limitations of a single volume has permitted, the history of the legal institutions and the administration of justice in the Colony and State of New York during their three hundred years of existence from the time of their first planting under the Dutch down to the beginning of the twentieth century. Necessarily the work of the writer has been largely that of compilation in bringing together from every available source of information whatever may have been recorded by preceding writers con cerning the subject, and weaving all this divergent material into a complete, logical and consistent narrative. Nothing of this kind has ever before been essayed, and it is believed that from these pages it will be possible to have a clear conception of the character of our legal institutions, the source of their origin, and the manner in which, gradually, from one generation to another, they developed from small and crude beginnings to their present proportions. 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.