A

✓ TREATISE

ON

THE LAWS

OF

Commerce and Manufactures,

AND

THE CONTRACTS

RELATING THERETO:

WITH AN APPENDIX

OF

TREATIES, STATUTES, AND PRECEDENTS.

BY JOSEPH CHITTY, Esq.
OF THE MIDdle temple, BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN,

LAW-PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY;

FOR HENRY BUTTERWORTH, LAW BOOKSELLER,
7, fleet Street, between the TEMPLE GATES;

J. M. RICHARDSON, CORNHILL; BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH;
AND R. MILLIKEN, DUBLIN.

ADVERTISEMENT

ΤΟ

THE FOUR VOLUMES.

IT is necessary to apprize the Reader that in the Progress of printing this Work some of the Acts. there referred to, especially those relating to the Navigation Laws, have been repealed or modified by the S Geo. 4. c. 42, 43, 44, and 45, and other Acts; and as it is impracticable in a Work of this Magnitude to state every Enactment or Decision existing at the Time it is published, the Author proposes to publish annually an Appendix or concise Statement of the Enactments and Decisions in the preceding Year, so as to continue the practical Utility of the Work. The Author cannot refrain from acknowledging the valuable Assistance of his Son, Mr. THOMAS CHITTY, in preparing the Third and Fourth Volumes for Publication.

28th November 1823.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SIR CHARLES ABBOTT,

Lord Chief Justice of England,

&c. &c. &c.

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED,

WITH

THE HIGHEST RESPECT

FOR THOSE GREAT LEGAL TALENTS

AND

THAT ENLIGHTENED JUDGMENT

WHICH SO EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED HIM

AS

AN ADVOCATE

AND

ULTIMATELY RAISED HIM

TO

THE HIGH JUDICIAL SITUATION

HE NOW FILLS,

WITH NO LESS HONOUR TO HIMSELF

THAN

BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.