ОР RIGHTS, REMEDIES, AND PRACTICE, AT LAW, UNDER THE CODES, AND IN EQUITY. DY JOHN D. LAWSON, AUTHOR OF WORKS ON PRESUMPTIVE evidence, exPERT EVIDENCE, CARRIERS, SAN FRANCISCO: BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY, LAW PUBLISHERS AND LAW BOOKSELLERS. 1891. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by the BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. PREFACE. THE necessity of an index under one alphabet to the seven volumes of RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND PRACTICE is apparent, and was felt long before the work had been completed. It is clear that to make these seven volumes a real working library to the legal practitioner, it is of vital importance that every one of the thousands of legal points and rulings which they contain should be open to him without the necessity of spending the time which the consultation of seven separate indices would require. And as this work of a complete index-digest could only be determined that it should be well done. Hence, that the present volume is a large book is due to the fact that it was deemed better by both publisher and author that no expense nor labor should be spared in its preparation, rather than that an incomplete index should be offered to the owners and readers of RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND PRACTICE. And so, after a most minute and careful digesting and indexing of the seven volumes, a key to them is now presented as the eighth and final volume of the work. once done, it was This place-the preface to the last volume-affords me a fitting opportunity to acknowledge the valuable assistance and faithful services of three members of the San Francisco Bar, during the last two years of my labors. To MR. JOSEPH A. JOYCE Vol. II owes the title Executors and Ad |