The Elements of Mercantile Law, Vol. 1 of 22 (Classic Reprint)

When not found complete, I have not attempted to restate the whole case, but have supplied, in the report, such facts or documents as seemed to me to be wanting. eft dI nsome cases, turning upon questions, or complicated states of fact, ana not involving any matter of law, I have not thought it necessary to encumber the work with detailed statements of evidence which no one would find it useful to recur to. These instances, however, are few. To each case is appended a note referring to all subsequent decisions in which the case in the text has been mentioned. It will thus be easy to ascertain whether a decision has been overruled, doubted, qualified, explained, or afiirmed; and to see what other applications have been made of the same or analogous principles. fT he paging of the authorized reporters has been preserved at the head of each case, and in the margin of each page, for convenience of reference ;the reporters being designated by their initials D. forD allas, C. for Cranch, W. for Wheaton, P. for Peters, H. for Howard. [F rom the Justices of theS upreme Court of the United Stales.] We approve the plan of Mr. Justice Curtis sD ecisions of theS upreme Court of the United States, and believe that its execution by him will be of-much utility to the legal profession, and to our country. Koger B. Taney, Chief Justice. Peter V. Daniel, Associate Justice. John McL ean, Associate Justice. Samuel Nelson, Associate Justice. James M. Wayne, Associate Justice. Kobeet C. Griee, Associate Justice. John Catkon, Associate Justice. J. A. Campbell, Associate Justice. [F rom the A ttorney-G eneral of the United States.] A ttorney-G eneral sO ffice, )S eptember 11, 1855. jt Gentlemen I have, in compliance with your request, examined the volumes now in the course of publication, entitled Keports of Decisions in theS upreme Court of the United States, by Mr. Justice Curtis
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