A Treatise On The Law Of The Contract Of Pledge As Governed By Both The Common Law And The Civil Law

Author : Henry Denis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330187142
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of the Contract of Pledge as Governed by Both the Common Law and the Civil Law written by Henry Denis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of the Contract of Pledge as Governed by Both the Common Law and the Civil Law I would not have thought of writing at this late day a book on the Contract of Pledge of the Common Law exclusively. Several treatises have already been published on that subject. Text-books, besides, are too often mere repetitions of one another. My object in this work is to arrive at a better knowledge and understanding of the law of Pledge of the Common Law by comparing it with the law of Pledge of the Civil Law, from which it descends. The comparative study of scientific subjects is always profitable, whether it is that of comparative anatomy or that of comparative jurisprudence. Both Judge Story and Mr. Schouler in their Treatises on Pledges recognized the relative obscurity and uncertainty of the Common Law on that subject, and suggested that assistance could be derived for its better understanding from the knowledge of the Civil Law. This is my reason, and, if necessary, my excuse, for presenting this book to the consideration of the Bench and Bar of this country. 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.