THE EARLY COURTS

OF

PENNSYLVANIA

BY

WILLIAM H. LOYD

OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR; GOWEN FELLOW IN THE LAW SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

BOSTON THE BOSTON BOOK 1910

COPYRIGHT, 1910 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

_The Riverdale Press, Brookline, Boston, Mass._

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL SERIES

NUMBER 2

Each volume in this series has been made a publication of the School of Law of the University of Pennsylvania, by a vote of the Law Faculty. The authors are connected with the school as members of the teaching force, fellows, or graduate students.

The object of the University is to promote the scientific study of legal problems--historical and practical, and to assist in the improvement of the law.

“_Yes, you have shown us a representation of freedom. True. But you are content with it in a world that moves by computation some considerable sum upward of sixty thousand miles an hour._”

DR. JULIUS VON KARSTEG TO HARRY RICHMOND