Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vol. 2 of 2The first volume contains a history of the bench and bar of Suffolk county. The introductory chapter in that volume is applicable to all the other counties in the Commonwealth with the exception of Plymouth, Barnstable, Bristol, Nantucket and the county of Dukes County before the establishment of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1692. Before that period the last two counties were outside of the present territory of Massachusetts, and will therefore only be considered in their relation to the bench and bar since that time. In 1685 the Plymouth Colony was divided into the counties of Plymouth, Barnstable and Bristol, and in the consideration of. The bench and bar of these counties, before the union of that Colony with the Colony of Massachusetts in 1692, it will be necessary to describe and explain the judicial organizations and the authority and laws on which they rested before they passed under the control of the government of Massachusetts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.