Engineering Contracts and Specifications: Including a Brief Synopsis of the Law of Contracts and Illustrative Examples of the General and Technical ... for the Use of Students, Engineers, and Cont
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Author(s)Johnson, J. B.
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1330080327
ISBN-139781330080320
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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Excerpt from Engineering Contracts and Specifications: Including a Brief Synopsis of the Law of Contracts and Illustrative Examples of the General and Technical Clauses of Various Kind of Engineering Specifications Designed for the Use of Students, Engineers, and Contractors
The leading American Engineering Schools have long needed a text-book on the subject of the Law of Contracts and Engineering Specifications. In the absence of any such text, this department of engineering practice has received scant and meagre treatment at the hands of these schools. This work has been written primarily to serve this purpose. After it was completed, however, it seemed to the author it might prove of value to the profession at large and also to contractors, especially those portions of it treating of the Law of Contracts and of the -General Clauses in Specifications.
While the author makes no pretension to a knowledge of law, he has read the standard authors on this subject, and has for some years lectured on contracts and specifications to his engineering students. He has tried to follow strictly the recognized authorities in all he has said in this work, and while he thinks his synopsis may serve as a good general guide to the fundamental principles of the subject, he recommends that the reader refer all important particular cases to his attorney, or else consult the standard works themselves. If a single volume is desired containing a general review of the Law of Contracts, the layman can not do better than obtain that of John D. Lawson, of the Law Department of the Missouri State University.
Another similar, and perhaps better work for the young lawyer, is that of J. P. Bishop; while Parsons three-volume work is the recognized standard authority for the lawyer.
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The leading American Engineering Schools have long needed a text-book on the subject of the Law of Contracts and Engineering Specifications. In the absence of any such text, this department of engineering practice has received scant and meagre treatment at the hands of these schools. This work has been written primarily to serve this purpose. After it was completed, however, it seemed to the author it might prove of value to the profession at large and also to contractors, especially those portions of it treating of the Law of Contracts and of the -General Clauses in Specifications.
While the author makes no pretension to a knowledge of law, he has read the standard authors on this subject, and has for some years lectured on contracts and specifications to his engineering students. He has tried to follow strictly the recognized authorities in all he has said in this work, and while he thinks his synopsis may serve as a good general guide to the fundamental principles of the subject, he recommends that the reader refer all important particular cases to his attorney, or else consult the standard works themselves. If a single volume is desired containing a general review of the Law of Contracts, the layman can not do better than obtain that of John D. Lawson, of the Law Department of the Missouri State University.
Another similar, and perhaps better work for the young lawyer, is that of J. P. Bishop; while Parsons three-volume work is the recognized standard authority for the lawyer.
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.
