Practice and forms of law and equity

Preface

Chiefly, this work is intended for use in all schools in which stenography and typewriting are taught. The need of a work of this character in the curriculum of such schools for a long time has been realized, both by teachers and pupils.

The service undertaken by the stenographer for the legal profes¬ sion, and in offices in which the clerical business of courts is trans¬ acted, requires knowledge and expertness in the use of this knowl¬ edge that cannot be obtained in a course of study not affording special opportunity to learn them. In this service the stenographer must use terms, phraseology, composition and forms to which, in all his preliminary education, he has never been introduced. He begins the few months of study and practice to fit himself for the occupation an absolute stranger to them. Unless this lack of edu¬ cation is overcome by special study and instruction he goes into the service of lawyers and official stations illy prepared to do> the work demanded of him.

The course of study and practice presented in this book includes knowledge technical and practical, and full illustrations of its appli¬ cation. Legal terms and phrases are clearly defined, and the uses made of them in judicial proceedings are exhibited in a great variety of forms. As shown in the analysis furnished in the index, the be¬ ginning of the journey is in a definition of the power vested in the courts, and an explanation of the judicial districts of the State.

From this point to the end, along the track, opportunity is af¬ forded the learner to become familiar with legal terms, as to their orthography, meaning and application; the machinery, in all its parts, through which the work of courts and the legal profession is preface.

performed; the peculiar forms used by the lawyers in their public and office business; the names and construction of all instruments perpetuated in public records, and the dockets in which these instru¬ ments are recorded. In brief, the aim of this book is to- give the student opportunity to become fitted to do> the work of a law sten¬ ographer in a manner satisfactory to the most exacting employer, and to furnish service entitling him to the highest rate of com¬ pensation.

Also from this work can be gathered information valuable to law students and beginners in the practice of the legal profession. For the special benefit of the latter, in addition to those with which the members of the profession are familiar, forms rendered neces¬ sary by recent legislation are furnished.

For several forms of praecipes, declarations and pleas in this book, I am indebted to the excellent work entitled “Practice in the Courts of Pennsylvania,” of which the late F. Carroll Brewster is author, and to “Dunlap’s Book of Forms,”

Francis M. Nichols.

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