Common-Law Pleading: Its History and Principles; Including Dicey's Rules Concerning Parties to Actions and Stephen's Rules of Pleading (Classic Reprint)

In my experience as a lecturer to students upon Common-L aw Pleading, I have felt the need of a textbook containing the discoveries (for such they may properly be called) upon the subject made in the last twenty-five years by such men as Pollock and Maitland in the mother-country, and Bigelow, Holmes, Thayer, A mes, and others among ourselves. I have here endeavored to gratify that need. The fundamental principles of the common-law with respect to actions can never be better stated than they have been by Chitty. Stephen has performed a like task for the rules of pleading, while Dicey has embraced the law governing the selection of the parties to an action in an admirable series of rules. These three treatises have been, so far as was practicable, combined here, and the language of their authors has been used with the fewest possible modifications. Free use has been also made of the third book of Blackstone sC
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