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ON THE LAW OF

SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY;

WITH REFERENCES TO THE

AMERICAN DECISIONS

AND TO THE

FRENCH CODE AND CIVIL LAW.

BY

J. P. BENJAMIN, Esq.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

STHEC

BIBI

LONDON:

HENRY SWEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET,

Law Bookseller and Publisher.

LONDON:

BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

PREFACE.

IF the well-known treatise of Mr. Justice Blackburn had been designed by its learned author to embrace the whole law on the subject of sale of goods, nothing further would now be needed by the practitioner than a new edition of that admirable work, incorporating the later statutes and decisions, so as to afford a connected view of the modifications necessarily introduced by lapse of time into the law of a contract so perpetually recurring as that of sale. But unfortunately for the Profession, Blackburn on Sale was intentionally restricted in its scope, and is confined to an examination of the effect of the contract only, and of the legal rights of property and possession in goods.

This treatise is an attempt to develop the principles applicable to all branches of the subject, while following Blackburn on Sale as a model for guidance in the treatment of such topics as are embraced in that work. An

effort has been made to afford some compensation for the imperfections of the attempt, by references to American decisions, and to the authorities in the Civil law,

not elsewhere so readily accessible.

TEMPLE,

August, 1868.

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