Author: Sisson C. Pratt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780266165842

Excerpt from Military Law: Its Procedure and Practice The enactments and provisions of the present Military Law are contained in the Army Act, the Reserve Forces Acts, the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act of 1907 and the Rules of Procedure. Notes to the above, marginal references, indexes, and chapters in the Official Manual are useful and generally correct guides in assisting an officer to form an Opinion, but they are not law. In distinction to matters of Law there are matters of Regulation, contained for the most part in the King's Regulations, Royal Warrants, Army Orders, and the Regulations for the Reserve and Territorial Forces. A regulation may restrict the application Of a law, but cannot alter it, and when law and regulation come in conflict, it is obvious that the latter must give way. Regulations are not drawn up by lawyers, and must not be construed too literally. To quibble over the exact meaning of a word in a paragraph of the King's Regulations or of an Army Order is very apt to lead to error. 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.