PREFACE. Judge Cooley's work on torts has been a standard text book for law schools and students since its first appearance in 1878. The preface to the first edition is as follows: "In preparing the following pages the purpose has been to set forth with reasonable clearness the general principles under which tangible and intangible rights may be claimed, and their disturbance remedied in the law. The book has been written quite as much for students as for practitioners, and if some portions of it are more elementary than is usual in similar works this fact will supply the explanation.' In preparing the present volume the original purpose of Judge Cooley has been kept in view and the endeavor has been "to set forth with reasonable clearness the general principles" of torts and to illustrate these principles by an abundant reference to the decided cases. The work has been greatly expanded along the line of negligence, in order to give adequate treatment to this most prolific source of litigation. About one-third of the volume, comprising chapters XI, XVI, XVIII and XIX, is devoted to this subject. |