MONTREAL AND ROUSES POINT, N. Y.:
LOVELL PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY,

1875.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

ΤΟ

THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL CORNWALLIS MONK, ONE OF THE JUSTICES

OF HER MAJESTY'S COURT OF APPEALS

OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA,

TO WHOSE PERSONAL KINDNESS AND
ENCOURAGEMENT IN LETTERS THE AUTHOR IS INDEBTED,

THIS BROCHURE IS DEDICATED,

NOT ONLY AS DUE IN FRIENDSHIP,

BUT ALSO AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS EMINENT ENDOWMENTS, AND TO HIS ATTAINMENTS AS A JURIS-CONSULT,

WITH THIS REGRET,

THAT THE WORK IS NOT COMMENSURATE WITH THE ESTEEM THE

AUTHOR HAS SO LONG HELD FOR ONE SO DISTINGUISHED

FOR HIS RIPE AND SOUND SCHOLARSHIP.

ERRATA.

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