Legal Aspects OF THE First Day of the Week. BY JAMES T. RINGGOLD, OF THE BALTIMORE BAR. "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with JERSEY CITY, N. J.: FREDERICK D. LINN & Co., LAW PUBLIshers. (RECAP) Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1891, by In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. THE ELECTRIC PRINTING CO., 1545 6.04382 THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, IN TESTIMONY OF THE AUTHOR'S KINDLIEST REGARD AND ESTEEM, ΤΟ HON. CHARLES G. KERR, STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR BALTIMORE CITY. "Cujus et vita et oratio consecuta mihi videtur difficilimam illam societatem GRAVITATIS CUM HUMANITATE." (iii) -Oie De Leg. III., 1. PREFACE. A law book ought to be a working tool. The practitioner should be safe in trusting that he will find in it fairly stated the result of the authorities upon the subject with which it deals. But no good reason is perceived why a law book should not be something more than this-why suggestions as to what the law ought to be should not accompany the statement of what the law is. The lawyer does not earn his living by merely citing cases; he has to cultivate the faculty of criticism and comparison in his practice. A critical and comparative way of dealing with a legal topic may, therefore, save him labor even when he does not accept the writer's conclusions. But lawyers have a higher function in society than that of making a living. They are, to a greater extent than any other class, makers of law-in the legislatures by enactment, on the bench by construction, at the trial table by persuasion. They are, therefore, above all others, the class to whom those should appeal who would have the law made or unmade along certain lines. In this little book the endeavor has been to include every point of technical interest, and at the same time to treat the subject in a manner worthy of its vast political and economical importance. On the success of the undertaking in either direction, others must decide. (D) J. T. R. |