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2 Mich L. J. 341 (1893)
The Administration of Justice in the United States of America in Civil Cases

handle is hein.journals/mlj2 and id is 345 raw text is: MVICHIGAN LAW JOURNAL. VOL. I. SEPT., 1893. No. 9. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STA TES OFAMERICA IN CIVIL CASES. THOMAS M. COOLEY. PRELIMINAIY. The paper which follows was prepared by the writer on an understanding that it was to be read at a congress composed of jurists gathered at Chicago from this and many foreign countries, who would naturally be interested in the methods prevailing among the different nations of the world for the protection of rights and the redressing of wrongs by means of civil remedies, and who might perhaps find it useful to them in making their comparisons, and in estimating the merits of respective systems which would there be set forth and explained. This being the sole purpose, the field to be occupied was obviously a narrow one, and the writer has not felt at liberty to wander beyond it for the purpose of criticising existing methods here or elsewhere, or of suggesting reforms, as he might do if he were addressing a gathering composed exclusively of American jurists, or of those interested in the practical operations of American law. To such a gathering he would understand very well that much of what is here said would appear commonplace, unless accompanied by practical suggestions having in view the improvement of the re- medial laws under which justice is now administered in the United States. Whoever would make himself familiar with the administra- tion of justice in any country needs first of all to understand the source of its laws, and how far these were the outgrowth of the habits, desires and needs of the people themselvs, or, on the other

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