Download or read book Studies of Old Case Books (Classic Reprint) written by James Paget and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies of Old Case Books Few things of the kind seem to be more useless than old Case-books. To the writer himself they may have some value and even great personal interest; he may profitably study himself in them as well as some of the facts which he has recorded. But to others they have no such utility. It would be difficult to find an instance, during this century, in which the old Case-books left by even the best observers in our profession have been of any use to their successors. Thus I have often thought when, from time to time, during the last few years, I have looked through the volumes and the piles of separate records of cases that I had written. They range through a period of about forty years, beginning with an account of the first case I ever saw. A young boatman in February 1830 was accidentally shot, with a big charge from a swivel-gun, through his left knee and elbow. 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.