THE CRIMINAL LAW BY JOHN G. HAWLEY Editor of American Criminal Reports, vols. 1-3; Author of Law of Arrest on Criminal Law in the Detroit College of Law, and AND MALCOLM MCGREGOR Secretary of the Detroit College of Law. FOURTH EDITION. DETROIT: THE SPRAGUE PUBLISHING CO. PREFACE. Solomon said "of making many books there is no end." Job said "My desire is that mine adversary had written a book." Although it is more than three thousand years since either of these things was said, yet they explain our reasons for writing this book. Giving precedence to Job, as the elder, it is to be noted that Job's meaning was that he had not intended to violate the law, but had intended to conform to it. If he had violated the law, he had done so unconsciously; because there was no existing book which set forth the law in such clear terms that a man could understand it by giving to it that amount of study which might reasonably be expected of one who performed-as Job so eloquently and pathetically tells us he did perform-the other duties which pressed upon him. Job did not mean, as has been insinuated by some authors whose books have been reviewed, that he wished that his adversary had written a book in order that he might have had a chance to review it. It appears in the sequel, in Job's case, that having intended and tried to do right and not to do wrong, that he had succeeded, and he was not a law breaker, a view of the law which we have tried especially to emphasize in this book. To return to Solomon. New books must be made because of the changing conditions of life, and because our law follows these changing conditions, and changes with them. There are many matters arising 437 7660 (RECAP) |