Excerpt from View of the Salmon Fishery of Scotland, With Observations on the Nature, Habits, and Instincts of the Salmon: And on the Law as Affecting the Rights of Parties, Etc It will undoubtedly be deemed a high degree of presumption in one who knows so little of Law, save from the suggestions of common sense, to meddle with it at all. But Law in Scot land, in nine cases in ten, is nothing else than the mere acci dental opimon of the Judge, varying with his knowledge of the subject before him; and, in truth, the administration of justice is So intimately connected with the state of the Salmon Fishery - so interwoven with its very existence - that they can not be separated. The Court of Session holds, in fact, the fate of the fishery in its hands: it may ruin it by declaring the most destructive modes of fishing legal - for the will of the Court is law; or it may prevent the possibility of its improve ment by tearing up the rights of the owners of the rivers in which the Salmon are produced for the idea of improving it elsewhere, as will be shown, is all delusion and nonsense. 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.