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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Malicious Prosecution, False Imprisonment, and the Abuse of Legal Process, as Administered in the Courts of the United States of America: Including a Discussion of the Law of Malice and Want of Probable Cause, Advice of Counsel, End of Prosecution, Etc In the preparation of this work it has been the design of the author to glean from the courts of last resort in the United States the leading adjudications upon the law of malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and the abuse of legal pro cess. In the work it is hoped that everything needed by the practical lawyer, both in the prosecution and defense of ao tions for the wrongs under consideration, will be found satis factorily discussed and amply illustrated by adjudicated cases. In the first chapter the action for malicious prosecutions, both in civil and criminal cases, its essential elements, the nature of the wrong and where the action lies, is fully and exhaustively discussed, with illustrations of'the law as applied by the American courts in adjudicated cases. 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.