A treatise on the law of easements in continuation of the author's Treatise on the law of real property

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Easements in Continuation of the Author''s Treatise on the Law of Real PropertyI have cited a great number of cases about five thousand and believe that they will generally be found to fully support the propo citions to which they are cited. It should however be kept in mind that the writer of a legal text-book often cites cases which are not decisions sustaining the statement in his text but only contain dicta or perhaps a discussion of the matter in hand or a reference to it without any expression of opinion by the court. A writer who undertakes to make a reasonably full citation of authorities would be considered much in fault if he merely cited those decisions which squarely meet and sustain his text....