Excerpt from The Law of Fraud: And the Procedure Pertaining to the Redress ThereofTempting as was the history of so venerable a branch of law, the limits which the author assigned for his work precluded all unnecessary departures from his design of presenting an orderly View of the existing Law of Fraud. Indeed, it was soon found that to attempt to treat the subject properly, in all its features, within the limits of a single volume of convenient size, would be vain, and the result was that the criminal law of fraud was left altogether untouched, and the statutory law concerning fraud on creditors and purchasers presented simply in the language of the Legislatures, without note or com ment.Whatever may have been the author's original desire, the eliminations suggested are not now regretted. The criminal and statutory branches of the subject have been often and ably treated by others. Besides, criminal law would hardly be looked for in a book treating of the civil jurisprudence of fraud, and, as to the statutory law concerning fraud on creditors and purchasers, each State of the Union, with a few exceptions, has a code of its own, interpreted by independent tribunals, and eu forced by distinct and diverse penalties and modes of procedure.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.