A Treatise On The Law Of Carriers Of Goods And Passengers By Land And Water Classic Reprint

Author : Walter Henry MacNamara
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331325543
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book A Digest of the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers by Land and Internal Navigation (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Henry MacNamara and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Digest of the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers by Land and Internal Navigation This work is an attempt to reduce the statute and case law of carriers by land into a code or series of articles. The writer originally intended to confine the articles themselves entirely to principles, and to make a scientific treatise on this particular branch of the law of bailments; but he found that to carry out this principle strictly would be to make the work far less useful to those interested in the law relating to the transit by railway of merchandise and passengers, and therefore it is that many of the articles, though important in themselves, are only examples of a principle contained in a previous article. To this extent the writer has laid himself open to the objection of not having given effect to the dictum of Lord Mansfield, set out on the title page of the book. For the same reason, in many of the articles dealing with statutory enactments, the verbatim words of the Act of Parliament are set out instead of the effect of them. Whether this branch of mercantile law is capable of codification is a matter upon which there must be a diversity of opinion. If codification is ever thought feasible or desirable, the writer is ambitious enough to hope that this Digest may afford facilities for that operation. 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.