The Law of Arrest in Civil and Criminal Actions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Law of Arrest in Civil and Criminal ActionsIN the preparation of this treatise the writer has endeavored to produce a work so exhaustive that the profession might feel justified in pronouncing it a standard authority on the subject with which it deals. At the same time it has been the effort to produce a work of such simple style that it would be intelligible to those not versed in legal lore, and that the many officers of the law who are called upon to invade the sacred right of personal liberty might do so with a full understanding of the rights of the accused, as well as their own rights.On the points of law where the cases are not in harmony, and cannot be reconciled, as, for example, whether, at common law, a seal was essential to the validity of a warrant, a careful examination of the decisions has been made, and what has appeared to be the better reasoning and weight of authority has been presented.The citations, covering the best decisions of both English and American courts, have been selected with view of making the work exceedingly useful as a general treatise on this important subject in the different States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.