Excerpt from Commercial Law for High Schools, Business Colleges and Business Men The laws of all the States (except Louisiana) are based upon the Common Law of England. Consequently the student knowing the laws of Illinois knows the funda mental law of all the States. It seems better to study the laws of one State than to give cases from all the States since to master one system is easier than forty-eight. There is no book on the market that deals with only Illinois law. The Author is in a new field altogether in this respect. The fundamental laws of the State can be learned without reference to Statutes or Reports. It is needless to point out the value of this to business men and law students. The aim is not to make lawyers, but to guide men in business transactions. The day of buying a book and becoming a lawyer is not here. It would be as reason able to expect one to buy a stock of drugs and become a doctor. While this is written to fit the needs of elementary study yet the Author has been gratified to learn that it has been of value as a quizzer for students preparing for the Illinois State Bar Examination. Actual cases rather than the theoretical have been emphasized. Almost without exception the illustrations are cases taken from the Illinois Supreme Court Reports, stated in the simplest language. The Specific predominates rather than the general. As far as possible technical terms have been avoided. 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.