and vigor have been spared until the fabric of her jurisprudence has been advanced to its present state of lofty eminence, attractive beauty, and enduring strength. men, But many will regard the foundation of the present Law School in Harvard University as the crowning benefit, which, through your instrumentality, has been conferred on our profession and country. Of the multitude of young who will have drunk at this fountain of jurisprudence, many will administer the law, in every portion of this widespread Republic, in the true spirit of the doctrines here inculcated; and succeeding throngs of ingenuous youth will, I trust, be here imbued with the same spirit, as long as our government shall remain a government of law. Your anxiety to perpetuate the benefits of this Institution, and the variety, extent, and untiring constancy of your labors in this cause, as well as the cheerful patience with which they have been borne, are peculiarly known to myself; while, at the same time, I have witnessed and been instructed by the high moral character, the widely-expanded views, and the learned and just expositions of the law, which have alike distinguished your private Lectures and your published Commentaries. With unaffected sincerity I may be permitted to acknowledge, that while my path has been illumined for many years by your personal friendship and animating example, to have been selected as your associate in the arduous and responsible labors of this Institution, I shall ever regard as the peculiar honor and happiness of my professional life. Beatè vixisse videar, quia cum Scipione vixerim. Long may you continue to reap the rich reward of labors so vast, so incessant, and of such surpassing value, in the heartfelt gratitude of our whole country, and in the prosperity of her institutions, which you have done so much to establish and adorn. I am, with the highest respect, CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 23, 1842. SIMON GREENLEAF. X ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION. consists chiefly of the more recent cases upon the different points in the law of evidence decided in the British courts. Upon examination, it was found that much of that work, especially of the second volume, is taken up by the divers new British statutes on evidence, the cases decided thereupon, and suggestions for amending the Law of Evidence, of special interest, no doubt, to the British, but of no practical interest to the American, lawyer; while no inconsiderable portion of the whole work is devoted to pleading and to other titles, in no way pertaining to evidence, and not presumably to be found in a treatise upon that subject. Except in these particulars, Taylor is (as is indeed apparent from the very candid preface itself) substantially Greenleaf, one section of the latter, with the notes, being extended into two or more sections of the text of the former, with not infrequent substitutions of English cases for the American authorities cited by Professor Greenleaf. In fact, no higher compliment has been paid to the work of Professor Greenleaf than its presentation, substantially in form and actually in substance, by Mr. Taylor to the British legal public, with such changes and additions only as adapted it to their use. The enlargement of the Index, and frequent cross-references, have greatly increased the value of this edition; and it is confidently believed that the work will still be found, as heretofore, the most satisfactory guide extant to the learning of the books upon this title of the law. J. W. M. NOTE. SOME of the citations from Starkie's Reports, in the earlier part of this work, are made from the Exeter edition of 1823, and the residue from the London edition of 1817-20. The editions of the principal elementary writers cited, where they are not otherwise expressed, are the following: Alciati, Opera Omnia. Basileæ. 1582. 4 tom. fol. Best Principles of Evidence. Lond. 1849. Canciani, Leges Barbarorum Antiquæ. Venetiis. 1781-1785. 5 vol. fol. Carpzovii, Practice Rer. Crim. Francof. ad Mænum. 1758. 3 vol. fol. Corpus Juris Glossatum. Lugduni. 1627. 6 tom. fol. Danty, Traité de la Preuve. Paris. 1697. 4to. Everhardi Concilia. Ant. 1643. fol. Farinacii Opera. Francof. ad Mænum. 1618-1686. 9 vol. fol. Glassford on Evidence. Edinb. 1820. Gresley on Evidence. Philad. 1837. Joy on Confessions. Dublin. 1842. Mascardus de Probationibus. Francof. ad Mænum. 1684. 4 vol. fol. Mathews on Presumptive Evidence. New York. 1830. Menochius de Presumptionibus. Genevæ. 1670. 2 tom. fol. Mittermaier, Traité de la Preuve en Matière Criminelle. Paris. 1848. Peake's Evidence, by Norris. Philad. 1824. Phillips and Amos on Evidence. Lond. 1838. 8th ed. Phillips on Evidence. Lond. 1843. 8th ed. Pothier on Obligations, by Evans. Philad. 1826. Russell on Crimes. 3d Amer. ed. Starkie on Evidence. 6th Amer. ed. 2 vols. Stephen on Pleading. Philad. 1824. Strykiorum, Opera. Francof. ad Mænum. 1743-1753. 15 vol. fol. Tait on Evidence. Edinb. 1834. Tidd's Practice. 9th Lond. ed. Wigram on the Interpretation of Wills. 3d Lond. ed. 1840. Wills on Circumstantial Evidence. Lond. 1838. |