Excerpt from A Treatise Upon the Law of Telegraphs: With an Appendix, Containing the General Statutory Provisions of England, Canada, the United States, and the States of the Union, Upon the Subject of Telegraphs The rapid extension of the Telegraph, and, its growing importance in commercial transactions and in private correspondence, induced the belief that a treatise upon the Law of Telegraphs would be acceptable to the Profession. Numerous cases in England and America have already come before the Courts for adjudication, involving rights and liabilities growing out of the use of the Telegraph; and the cases steadily multiply, as this agency becomes more extended. The wonderful perfection of the instruments and appliances now used, as also the improvements constantly being made, plainly indicate that the Telegraph has a capacity for serving the public, not dreamed of by its first inventors. Its adoption into the postal systems of the world is only a question of time. It will be seen that there is much conflict of judicial opinion upon important questions connected with this subject, in the cases already reported. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.