Commentaries on the Law of Partnership, as a Branch of Commercial...
"A Truly Luminous Exposition of a Subject Noted for Its Intricacy" Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Commentaries on the Law of Partnership, As a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence, With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859. xxix, 754 pp. Text prefaced by 8-pp. publisher catalogue not mentioned in Cohen. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"; 23.6 x 14.8 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, red lettering piece and small paper label to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffs to boards, spine significantly darkened and gatored, rubbing and some wear to board edges, corners bumped, front hinge cracked but secure. Very light toning to interior (somewhat more moderate to publisher catalogue), negligible light foxing and faint pencil underlining in a few places. $250. * Fifth edition. This was the first comprehensive American treatise on partnership. Like Story's other great treatises, it was a standard work in the United States (and, to some extent, Great Britain). This was published in the antebellum era, a period when American law was being shaped to support a growing capitalist and commercial economy, often in opposition to states' rights and agrarian interests. Story's treatises, with their pro-business vision and integration of Roman and common law, played a significant role in this development. Story, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a leading legal scholar, wrote a number of influential treatises that shaped American law. His works were standard resources in the U.S. and Great Britain for many years. Charles Warren, in Law Studies, said it is "a truly luminous exposition of a subject noted for its intricacy, and the subtlety of the rules upon which the system depends" (451). Roscoe Pound, in The Formative Era of American Law, included it in his list of texts that were "a significant force in our legal development" (140). The first edition was published in 1841. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 9325.
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