A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes (Classic Reprint)

Treatifes are already before the public on the fubje(fl of the following (heets :W ithout attempting to appreciate the refpedtive merits of thefe performances, or to compare them particularly with his own, the author of the prefent publication feels it necefiary to obferve, that the plan of his work differs very materially from either of the others. He has endeavoured to produce a compofition, which, without difgufting the profeflional reader, may be eafily comprehended by men of bufinefs, and ferve as an elementary treatife t( the ftudent. In executing this plan, he has given, under each divilion, an hirtorical deduction of the opinions which have been held on the point immediately under difcuflion, and concluded with the law as fettled by the lateft decilions, where, in fad:, it has been fettled. Where the point remains ftill in doubt, he has Hated the arguments on both fides of the queftion. How far he has fucceeded in the execution, the public only can decide. No. 4, Hare Ccurf, Tcmjie Oober,
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