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Excerpt from The Law of Negligence, Vol. 1 of 2: Relations Not Resting in Contract; Illustrated by Leading Cases and Notes The preface of a book ought to be a brief advertisement of its con tents and purposes, from the author's point of view. These volumes embody an attempt to classify and present the case-law of England and America on the subject of Negligence, in relations not springing out Of contract, in a form which it was thought would prove most useful and convenient to practising lawyers. Dismissing the definitions of negli gence which are usually given in the law-books, the writer came to the conclusion that its proper legal meaning is a failure of duty, generally unintentional, but sometimes intentional.1 The foundation of every action for negligence is, therefore, a duty on the part of the defendant toward the plaintiff to abstain from doing what he did, or to do what he failed to do. 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.