A Compilation Of The General And Public Statutes Of The State Of Georgia

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Excerpt from A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: Containing All Statutes and the Substance of All Resolutions of a General and Public Nature, and Now in Force, Which Have Been Passed in the State, Previous to the Session of the General Assembly of December, 1820 The statutes of this state have so accumulated as' to be some what formidable from their number alone; but they have become so perplexed with amendments, repeals, revivals, and supple, ments; and by frequent modifications of the amending or sup plementary acts, that the law on most subjects is utterly be yond the reach of the people at large, and is not attainable 1 without some difficulty eren hy'the profession. The obvious remedy for this evil was that provided by the Act of 1819, directing the compilation of a digest unincumbered with private or local acts, and presenting to the public in a portable and convenient volume, such laws only as are public in their nature, and still in force; and these so arranged and indexed as to be readily found. The first duty that devolves on the compiler of such a work, and perhaps not the least embarrassing, is to determine with a due regard to public utility and to the size of the intended ve lume, what acts are of such a character as to be proper for ia-s -sertion. A fully public, and a'str'ictly private act are, indeed, widely different; but between these there'are many of an inter mediate description, some of which are so nearly equivocal in their nature as to make it a matter of some difficulty to deter mine to which Class they most properly belong, and to decide under all the-circumstances on which hand they should be placed. The definitions and distinctions in the law-books, formed as they are on a system of statutes considerably different in their strue ture from ours, have been found not entirely satisfactory, and therefore have not been strictly followed. By th'ese authorities, the bank charters are private acts; being for the regulation of private associations of individuals for purposes of private emolu ment. But these companies are so dispersed over the state and so thoroughly mixed through the population; their opera ions are so intimately and 'extensively connected with the rights of property and they hence exert an in uence which, though secret and Silent, is so pervading and powerful, that to most moral and practical purposes, and without adverting to the shares held by the government, their charters should, as the compiler conceives, be ranked with public acts. They are therefore included. 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."

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