Excerpt from A Selection of Leading Cases on Mercantile and Maritime Law, Vol. 1: With Notes The plan of this selection of Leading Cases is like that adopted in similar collections. Cases frequently cited in our Courts, or in which some important principle was first enunciated in clear and decisive terms, are first chosen, and to these are appended Notes, in which an attempt is made to develop the principles laid down in the cases, great care being at the same time taken to notice. The recent authorities. The Cases in this work may be divided into two impor tant divisions: the first, relating to ordinary mercantile law in time of peace; the second, relating to the effect of war, and especially of maritime war, upon the property and contracts of merchants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.