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Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on the Law of Carriers of Goods and of Passengers Although this collection of cases as now published remains substantially the same as when the Cases on Carriers of Goods were published three years ago, and the Cases on Carriers of Passengers were added a year later, making the first complete edition, yet there have been such changes in plan as to make an entirely new preface proper; and the former one is omitted as not applicable to the book in its present form, although the general purpose and plan have not been materially changed. Three principal considerations have been borne in mind in the selection of the cases to be included: First, to secure at least one case on each question involved in the law of carriers upon which the instructor would feel that he ought to give his class information, so that the collection will serve substantially the purpose of a text-book. Second, to select cases which present the principles of the subject by way of adjudication of actual controversies before a court, and not merely by way of dictum or argument in laying down the general propositions of law on the subject. These text-book cases are apparently satisfactory to the novice in the study of cases, because they seem to serve the purpose of a treatise, but they are not the cases which carry the greatest weight when cited, and therefore are not the cases which the student should master in determining what the law is. 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.