Download or read book The American Law Journal, 1849, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Law Journal, 1849, Vol. 8 The arguments then commenced in relation to the civil suit for damages, which was tried by the court alone with out a jury, and the difference in the result shows what is very common in this country in the trial of criminal cases, a wide difl'erence of opinion between the court and jury. In the criminal prosecution the accused, we have seen. Was acquitted by the jury; but in the civil suit the court awarded to the widow-mother, and the nephews of the deceased, the sum of francs damages.with costs, and ordered that Bouvallon, in case of default in payment, should be imprisoned two years. 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.