ADVICE

ON THE

STUDY OF THE LAW,

WITH

DIRECTIONS FOR THE CHOICE OF BOOKS,

AND ADDITIONAL NOTES

FOR THE AMERICAN STUDENT.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take
for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh
and consider.

BACON.

Baltimore:

PUBLISHED BY EDWARD J. COALE.

1811.

DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, TO WIT:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this twentieth day of May, in the thirty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America, EDWARD J. COALE, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words and figures following, viz.

"Advice on the Study of the Law, with Directions for the Choice of Books, and additional Notes for the American Student."

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."

BACON."

In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other paintings.

PHILIP MOORE, Cik. of Dis't of Maryland

PREFACE.

THE Author of the suggestions contained in the following sheets, relies with confidence on the candour of the reader, for all reasonable indulgence in this his humble endeavour to render himself serviceable, as a friendly monitor to young articled Clerks in the profession of the Law. He solicits correction under errors; he feels how highly he may improve under just criticism; and he will receive it with gratitude but he must stand excused, if he should prove regardless of the censure of those men who reject a book as useless, without giving themselves the trouble to examine it, or to search into the motives.