Excerpt from Principles of Law for the Farmer, Mechanic, Merchant and Householder: Being a Ready Work of Reference Concerning Such Legal Matters as Are of Especial Importance to Laymen in the Ordinary Affairs of Life

No man can safely attempt to be his own lawyer. Even men who are lawyers by profession usually prefer to have their lawsuits tried by a brother practitioner. It is an old and familiar saying that a man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for his attorney. An incomplete knowledge of any subject is dangerous to those who undertake to act upon it. On the other hand, no one can have a lawyer always at his elbow, whose advice may be taken at every turn in the swift-moving occurrences of human life; and legal advice is not usually obtained until matters have come to an aggravated pass. It seldom happens that the mischiefs of a lawsuit could not have been mitigated, or averted altogether, if one or both of the parties had a knowledge of their ordinary rights and duties, when the dispute began.

It is, or should be, therefore, a part of the education of every man or woman owning property, or possessing rights of any description which are subject to loss, to have a general knowledge of ordinary legal principles, which control the common concerns of life. Such general principles are usually stated in technical language, for the use of legal practitioners, and are difficult both of access and comprehension to ordinary readers. The last twenty-five years have seen an overwhelming duplication and re-duplication of law books. When a case is decided on appeal, the judge deciding it writes an opinion, which, together with a brief statement of the facts over which the litigation arose, and a short summary of the arguments of counsel on either side, is published, along with similar decisions and opinions, in serial law reports.

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