Excerpt from The Law of Evidence in Civil Cases, Vol. 1 of 3Since the rules of evidence are for the most part the outgrowth of judicial decisions, and belong to the domain of judge-made law, and not to that of codes and statutes, it is not remarkable that, in a country having many independent jurisdictions, there should have arisen in the course of more than a century innumerable con¿icting decisions on the law of evidence.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.