Excerpt from Trial of the Case of the Commonwealth Versus David Lee Child, for Publishing in the Massachusetts Journal: A Libel of the Honorable John Keyes, Before the Supreme Judicial Court, Holden at Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex, October Term, 1828Such a Court, so administering the law, could not be ex pected to live long. But although the Star Chamber with its summary justice and arbitrary punishments, fell into dis favour and was abolished, still the legal principles which this Court had introduced in relation to libels, had become incorporated into the general system, and established by precedent in the contemporaneous Courtgof common law.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.