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The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review
The Literary and Scientific Repository and Critical Review Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: plaint and remonstrance ; for the annals of diplomacy show, that the etiquette of the Turkish Court does not forbid a Grand Vizier to box the ears of a foreign m... more »inister, or to hang his protége under the windows of his palace.f La Haie-Ventelet, Ambassador of Louis XIV. | Lynche, an agent of Count Vergennes. Art. III.-—A Treatise on the Practice of the Supreme Court of New-York in Civil Actions, together with proceedings in Error; By John A. Dunlap, Counsellor at Law. Vol 1. Albany. Backus, pp. 619. Notwithstanding, at the first glance, a review of a treatise on the practice of a Law Court has only novelty to recommend it, upon further examination the practice of Courts will be found of more immediate interest to the public than they are generally aware ; and though we cannot be suspected of undervaluing literary criticism, yet we are not so wanting in worldly wisdom as to think that which vitally affects property in all its varied shapes, is undeserving of our attention. In this country, where the spirit of curiosity, urged on by natural intelligence and a keen sense of interest, renders almost every man a dabbler in law, it is curious that Practice is as unknown to the public as if it were unworthy or impossible to be understood. Practice is the manner of conducting a suit, partly as regulated by statutes, partly by standing rules and known customs of the court, which embrace the most necessary and notorious incidents, and partly by decisions upon particular and unusual points, upon which no previous regulation had been settled. The great object in practice is to mature an asserted right to judgment; urging forward to this point, with the question clearly staled, and the means of asserting or denying it fully prepared. That this object should be attained with as l...« less