Excerpt from The Law and Practice of the Courts of the United Kingdom Relating to Foreign Judgments and Parties Out of the Jurisdiction: To Which Are Added Chapters on the Laws of the British Colonies, European and Asiatic Nations, and the States and Republics of America A first edition can scarcely pretend to be more than a sketch of any subject: in the second, the author may hope to arrive at more perfect and finished work. In recasting and rewriting the volume published in 1879, I have therefore attempted a deeper analysis of the subject which a more prolonged study of the cases rendered possible. In doing this I received many valuable suggestions from my friend Mr H. Duff of the Inner Temple. The volume published in 1881 reappears as chapters xii to xvi of the present work: these chapters preserve their original form, which kept convenience of reference principally in view. A considerable amount of information has been added to them, and many serious omissions have been supplied. To a member of the Reichsjustizamt at Berlin, one of the most erudite of German judges, Mr Landrichter Vierhaus, who has been my unwearying correspondent during the last eighteen months, I am indebted for much of this additional information, and for the entire chapter on German law. Without his valuable aid even an approach to completeness would have been impossible. I am also under a debt of great obligation to Mr Ernest Schuster, of the Middle Temple, who has laboured unceasingly in my behalf in the collection and translation of foreign laws. 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.