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THE

LAW OF PERSONS

OR

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

BY EPAPHRODITUS PECK

ASSOCIATE JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR HARTFORD
COUNTY, CONNECTICUT 1897-1912; LECTURER IN YALE
UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

CHICAGO

CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY

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PREFATORY NOTE

This book is the outgrowth of a course on Domestic Relations, delivered for nine years in the Yale University Law School. The object constantly kept in view in the preparation of the book has been the practical benefit and convenience of both instructor and student. To this end, the selection of cases has been chiefly of American, rather than of English, cases; and of the recent, "ruling cases," which contain a broad discussion of the topic in question, with a review of the prior decisions, rather than of the "leading cases," earlier in date, and in which the doctrines were first propounded, which have been developed in later cases.

I have intended to make a book of a size and scope that could be reasonably covered in such a course as is usually given in the law schools on this topic.

I wish to call particular attention to the cases printed in black-letter type in the notes. It has been my practice in giving this course by lecture to assign in connection with each lecture a group of illustrative cases, which the students were expected to read, and be prepared to recite upon, together with the contents of the lecture. I have found this method very serviceable. The cases illustrate clearly the propositions stated in the lecture; and the reading of the cases fixes the matter vividly in their minds. Used in connection with the text-book, that method would have the advantages which attach to the use of a case-book in connection with a text-book, except for the convenience of having the selection of cases in convenient form in the students' hands; and I am sure that most instructors will agree with me that there are

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