TREATISE ON THE LAW OF SALES OF PERSONAL PROPERTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE FOREIGN Law Second Edition
Story, William W.
Item: 333720
ISBN: 1-57588-885-8
Pages: xl, 574 pp.
Published: Boston; Little, Brown & Co.; 1853. Reprinted in 2006.
William Story, finding no comprehensive American treatise on the law of sales of personal property in the mid-19th Century, immersed himself in the study of American jurisprudence and made comparisons with foreign cases to produce his work which was heralded by the legal community. "The continual increase of commerce, not only gives birth to new questions, but materially modifies established doctrines." (Preface). Story directed his work to providing a full treatise on the whole body of law relating to sales as it existed at the time in America and England. References are also made to the laws of France and Scotland.
