Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Law Journal and Miscellaneous Repertory, 1809, Vol. 2: Containing Adjudged Cases in the Supreme Court of the United States; Adjudged Cases in the Circuit, District and State Courts of the United States; Opinions of Eminent Counselors; Notices of New Publications; Essays on Legal Questions Documents accompanying the Message from the President of the United States at the commencement of the Second Session of the Tenth Con gress, concluded from vol I. 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.