Excerpt from The Law of Interpleader as Administered by the English, Irish, American, Canadian and Australian Courts: With an Appendix of Statutes The preface to a law book is the legal writer's opportunity, he can there stand aside and say what he thinks and feels about the subject of which he has been treating. Within he is treading on sacred ground where he is surrounded by precedent to which he must bow, and if here and there he finds a gap to be filled, or a remark is called for upon conflicting decisions, he must do what is necessary in a humble spirit. The comparative antiquity of inter-pleader and its continuous and increasing growth, make the author feel that he has been in the company of a living organism in the great and growing body of the law. Its development goes on, and every day he enters a law library he finds something new in the last digests or reports, and the question when to stop becomes a serious one. All this makes him convinced that no law book is perfect, for the legal growth continues, and new editions are necessary, not always because the last one is out of print, but, because it is not up-to-date. It is with this feeling that the author gives the result of his labour to the profession. Several centuries ago in England, the double vexation of some individual in respect of a single liability, caused the jurists of that day to devise for the relief of future stakeholders a legal remedy which became known as "enter-pleader." This grew and flourished in the Courts of Law for a time, and then became obsolete. 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.