Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Architect, Owner and Builder Before the Law: A Summary of American and English Decisions on the Principal Questions Relating to Building, and to the Employment of Architects, With About Eight Hundred References
Here is an old proverb, that he who undertakes to be his own lawyer has a fool for his client and if one who essays to be his own architect usually purchases at a very high price a very imperfect knowledge of some portion of the art of building, the man who imagines that by reading a few law books he will be enabled to get the better of his less in structed fellow-citizens is likely to have his illusion removed still more suddenly and unceremoniously. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
