Excerpt from Cases on the Law of Bills, Notes, and Cheques The first edition of the Cases on the Law of Bills, Notes, and Cheques was prepared more particularly to accompany and illus trate the work on that subject by Melville M. Bigelow, LL. D., and was not suited fully for the use of students in the class-room as a basis of study. The present edition, made necessary by the re vision of_ the text-book, and by the codification of the subject, has been prepared, following the order of the revised text, especially for such use. Accordingly, it has been necessary to enlarge the book greatly by the addition of many cases; and this has been done with the aim to collect a set of illustrative cases which shall present as comprehensive a view of the subject as can be treated in a course in school. The plan of the book is to lead the student, in his study, to look upon the law of the subject from the standpoint of the law merchant; accordingly, cases have been selected, when possible, which put in the foreground the customs of merchants and bankers as the basis of decision. The head-notes to the cases are aimed to enforce the point, and, at the same time, to present a concise and, as far as possible, a continuous statement of princi ples and rules, which are illustrated by the cases. No attempt has been made to prepare a complete annotation of the law of commercial paper, and, in so far as notes have been added or citations given to the Statute Or the authorities, the purpose has been to aid in bringing the student to a right point of view, and at the same time developing a working knowledge of the law as it is. Much stress is laid upon the necessity of right theory as the starting-point of study. 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.

Excerpt from The Consolidated Statutes of Newfoundland Of storing gunpowder In the towns of St. Johns, Harbor Grace Carbonear, Of the St. John' s fire brigade. 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.

Excerpt from Cases on the Law of Bills: Notes, and Cheques to Accompany the Editor's Work But Holt, Chief Justice, was totis viribus against the action, and said that this could not be a bill of exchange; that the maintaining of these actions upon such notes were innovations upon the rules of the common law, and that it amounted to a new sort of Specialty unknown to the com mon law, and invented in Lombard street, which attempted, in these matters of bills of exchange, to give laws to Westminster Hall.' 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.

Excerpt from The Law of Bills, Notes, and Cheques Before answering that question it will be well to recall the state of things existing in England during, let us say, the later period of the Hanseatic League. London and the other commercial towns of England were full of foreign merchants engaged there in trade. These for eigners not only trained the fine hand of England to its cunning in commerce, but what is more to the present purpose, they brought with them the usages of business on the continent whence they had come. The custom of merchants was a foreign importation into England. That is sufficient to explain its unlikeness to the great domestic product, - the common law. What these foreign merchants brought to England in the way of peculiar usage, so far as the present subject is concerned, was negotiability and grace; they brought bills of exchange, and with those instruments, as part and parcel of them, the property of circulation and a short extension of time in ease of the payor. 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.

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This dictionary tackles matters of commerce, such as bills of exchange and promissory notes. John Irwing Maxwell, a barrister of the Middle Temple, was an authority on maritime law. He was also the author of The Spirit of Marine Law: Or Compendium of the Statutes Relating to the Admiralty.