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Excerpt from Military Law and Precedents In view of the absence and want of a comprehensive treatise on the science of Military Law, it has been for some years the purpose of the author a member of the bar in the practice of his profession when, in April, 1861, he entered the military service - to attempt to supply such want with a Work, which, by reason of its extended plan and full presentation of principles and precedents, should constitute, not merely a text book for the army, but a law book adapted to the use of lawyers and judges. The present treatise was substantially completed in 1880, when the author was called upon to publish his annotated Digest of Opinions of the Judge Advocates General, and some of the references embraced in the original work were inserted in the notes of that publication. Since its date certain unusually important military trials and investigations have been had, sundry valuable opinions upon questions of military law have been pronounced by the courts and other legal authorities, and our written military law - especially the Army Regulations - has been materially modified. Meanwhile also, in England, the time-honored Mutiny Act and Articles of War have wholly passed away and been succeeded by the new Army Act and Rules of Procedure, - a reform of great interest to the military student, - and this legislation, &c., has been copiously illustrated by the excellent official Manual of Military Law and a series of minor com mentarles. In view of these changes, the present work has been revised, and in great part re-written, and the references have been brought down to the end of the year 1885. Apart from the views and conclusions of the author, the precedents, now first collected and considered, will, it is believed, be found to be valuable both as law and history. A complete history, for example, of the late war could scarcely be written without taking into consideration the more important trials and acts of military government of that period instanced in the course of these volumes. 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.