Excerpt from Farm Law: A Treatise on the Legal Rights and Liabilities of Farmers Adapted to the Statutes of All the States The substance of the following pages was origi nally delivered by Edmund H. Bennett as a lecture before the Massachusetts State Board of Agricul ture, at Hingham, Massachusetts, December 5, 1878. The lecturer was at that time a member Of the Board. And the circumstances under which the lecture was first delivered may account for the use of a familiar style. Agricultural and other journals throughout the country have reprinted it, and it has been cited in the Opinions of the courts. In the present revision of the lecture some new matter and authorities have been added, and some Slight changes made. 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.