Book excerpt: Excerpt from Military Law and Precedents, Vol. 1 of 2 Meanwhile there have been published two editions, of 1887 and 1893, (revised in of a compendium of the text of this treatise, entitled an Abridgment of Military Law, which has been adopted by the Secretary of War, and is now used, as the text book on Military Law for the instruction of the Cadets of the Military Academy. 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.