Excerpt from The Modern Law of Personal Property The present work is intended to be the complement of the Modern Law of Real Property; in consequence of the favor able reception accorded to that work the Author has been induced to undertake this one. The same method has been adopted in particular, where it has appeared desirable, statutes have been quoted verbatim, and in like manner expositions of the lau7 by Judges and Writers are given in their own words. What is common both to realty and to personalty and has been already treated of in the earlier work has not been repeated in this. The subjects of Bankruptcy and of Bills of Sale have been fully treated separate chapters have been devoted to the Bills of Exchange Act, to the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, and to the laws of Copyright; in the seventh, eighth, and twelfth Chapters will be found an outline of the law relating to Companies the provisions of the Married Women's Property Act, which has effected so many changes, will be found passim. 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.