Original printed spelling and grammar are retained, with a few exceptions noted below. The corrections suggested in the CORRIGENDA have been applied. Original printed page numbers look like this: “|81|”. Footnotes were changed to endnotes, and renumbered 1–514. One common printer’s error has been corrected silently; fairly often a short word such as “a” was printed twice on successive lines. Thus, for example, a sentence on page 99 originally read “And a a very recent writer says . . . .”
In the index, ditto marks and white space were used in combination to indicate words repeated from line to line. In this edition, em dashes are used instead. Thus the line beginning “Provision made for study of, in England”, was printed with two ditto marks and white space sufficient to indicate the first five words repeated; herein rendered “— — — — — in Canada”.
Page v. “Practioners” changed to “Practitioners”.
Page viii. “Connnecticut” to “Connecticut”.
Page 12. “distingushed” to “distinguished”.
Page 26. “carlessness” to “carelessness”.
Page 36. “chairvoyant” to “clairvoyant”.
Page 58. The quotation beginning in the last paragraph has no closing mark.
Page 74. Closing quotation mark added after “for a misfeasance”.
Page 66. “exibibit” to “exhibit”.
Page 80. “probablity” to “probability”.
Page 84. “adminster” to “administer”.
Page 101. The quotation beginning ‘Again, “where books are thus offered’ has no closing quotation mark.
Page 104 note. Unmatched left curly bracket removed from “1 Houston Cr. Cas. (Del. 371”.
Page 106. “Uuited” to “United”. Also, “or there probable effect” is retained because it is in a quotation.
Page 115. Closing double quotation mark added after ‘are wholly inadmissible as evidence.’
Page 121. This partial sentence: ‘gives the following, “In a case of alleged child murder a medical witness, being asked for a plain opinion of the cause of death, said, that it was owing to “atelectasis and a general engorgement of the pulmonary tissue.”’ was changed to ‘gives the following, “In a case of alleged child murder a medical witness, being asked for a plain opinion of the cause of death, said, that it was owing to ‘atelectasis and a general engorgement of the pulmonary tissue’.”’
Page 126. Closing quotation mark was added to the end of the paragraph containing the following opening mark: ‘judges replied, “We think’.
Page 128. “Massachussetts” to “Massachusetts”.
Page 130. “physican” to “physician”.
Page 134 note. “(N. S.) 580)” retained despite evident error.
Page 155. Full stop removed from “chiefly murderers.;”.
Page 172. “particnlar” to “particular”.
Page 177. Closing quotation mark added to the end of the paragraph containing the following opening mark: ‘Court refused it saying, “Purchasers have to trust’.
Page 181. “manslaugher” to “manslaughter”.
Page 184 note. The rightmost right parenthesis was removed from “Clay v. Roberts, 9 Jur. (N. S.) 580)”.
Page 191 note. “Christie v. Glark” is retained; but there is no mention of this case in the TABLE OF CASES CITED beginning on page vii.
Page 209, Index, Heading “Parent and Child”. “Liablility” to “Liability”.