ON THE LAW OF THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS; EMBRACING HUSBAND AND WIFE, PARENT AND CHILD, GUARDIAN AND SERVANT. BY JAMES SCHOULER, LL.D., PROFESSOR IN THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, AND AUTHOR 66 BAILMENTS, INCLUDING CARRIERS," "WILLS," ETC. FIFTH EDITION. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. L14972 SEP 26 1938 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, BY JAMES SCHOULER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1895, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. UNIVERSITY PRESS : PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. THE present edition of this work has been prepared by the author, and in it are embodied the latest English and American decisions, brought down as nearly as possible to the date of going to press. Miss Mary A. Greene, of the Boston bar, has assisted in collecting the cases. Our law of Husband and Wife is still changing, and is even more chaotic than when this book was first published, twenty-five years ago. Under such circumstances the author has felt himself justified in discriminating somewhat among the added cases, where so many are of purely local or temporary application; others, again, being cited merely by book and page. Nothing, however, of importance in the general treatment of this branch of the law has been overlooked, and the whole work is still kept within the compass of a single volume for the reader's convenience. September 9, 1895. J. S. |