Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, and Guaranties of...
Fourth Edition of Story's Final Treatise Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Bennett, Edmund H. [1824-1898] editor. Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, And Guaranties of Notes, And Checks on Banks and Bankers. With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856. xxxvi, 696 pp. Text prefaced by 8-pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"; 23.6 x 14.8 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, red lettering piece and fragments of name labels to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffs to boards, moderate rubbing and light wear to extremities, spine significantly darkened and gatored, front joint starting at head. Moderate toning and light foxing to interior. A good copy. $350. * Fourth edition and edited posthumously by Edmund Hastings Bennett. An important edition that showcases the development of American commercial law in the mid-19th century through the ongoing updates to a foundational text by a giant of American jurisprudence. Joseph Story (1779-1845), a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, was one of the most influential legal minds of his era and the youngest person ever appointed to the court. His series of commentaries on commercial law were highly influential in shaping American law in the 19th century and beyond. This specific work was his final treatise, originally published in 1845 and written while he was still serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and professor of law at Harvard. According to Cohen, "Joseph Story's work on promissory notes was the last of his great treatises. (...) Unlike many of his predecessors, Story treated each aspect of commercial law separately in a series of works which included his treatises on agency (1839), partnership (1841), bills of exchange (1843) and finally the one on promissory notes. The inclusion of comparative sources from the commercial law of other countries reflects Story's view, expressed in his opinion for the Supreme Court in Swift v. Tyson (1842) that commercial law was international, not the 'law of a single country only, but of the commercial world.'" It was written while he was still serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and professor of law at Harvard. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law.
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