Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence: With Occasional Illustrations From the Civil and Foreign Law (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence: With Occasional Illustrations From the Civil and Foreign Law<br><br>The present volume is the commencement of a series of Com mentaries which in pursuance of the original scheme of the Dane Professorship it is my design if my life and health are prolonged to publish upon the different branches of commer cial and maritime jurisprudence. The task is truly formidable and full of difficulties; and I approach it with a diffidence pro portionate to the public sense of its importance and to my own consciousness that its perfect execution will require a leisure and learning and ability which are very far beyond my reach. So various are the topics to be discussed and so numerous the authorities to be consulted that a whole life might well be spent in collecting and mastering the materials. Even when these should be brought together the labor of analyzing the princi ples and reducing them to a text of a moderate extent with the practical illustrations necessary to explain and confirm them might be found sufficient to create some discouragement even in minds accustomed to the close discipline of juridical studies. What I propose to do therefore I beg may be treated as an approximation only towards the accomplishment of such a de sirable object. My efforts will be to present accurate outlines of the leading doctrines of commercial and maritime law. But it must be left to more gifted minds to enjoy the enviable dis tinction of having embodied in a durable form the entire details of this vast science.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.