Excerpt from Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, Vol. 23In examining records of the Superior and Supreme Courts of Bristol County recently, covering the period from 1740 on, we discovered a large number of suits for Trespass and Ejectment where the sum named in the ad damnum seemed unusually large, so large, in fact, that is raised the question as to how such an amount could be in volved in a suit of this nature at that period of the his tory of the state, especially as the description of the land in question would not seem to warrant the amount of money named. Often a house lot Of a quarter of an acre with a dwelling on it would carry an ad damnum of four or five thousand dollars.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.