Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property, Vol. 1 of 2 The present work was projected in 1887 and something was then done upon it. It was, however, temporarily laid aside for other tasks, until January, 1892. Since that time it has been constantly in hand and has been prosecuted as rapidly as health and the pressure of many other duties would permit. Not withstanding the utmost effort, however, it has been delayed long beyond the time originally fixed for its completion. As it is, the book is very far from being what the writer hoped to make it, or what he still believes he might have made it, had his work been done under more favorable conditions. To retain it longer, however, for further elaboration seems neither practicable nor wise. The general outline and arrangement of Mr. Benjamin have, in the main, been adopted. This course was decided upon for two reasons: first, because Mr. Benjamin's classification has always been regarded as excellent in itself; but secondly and chiefly, because Mr. Benjamin's analysis (which in its turn was largely that of Lord Blackburn) has so decidedly controlled the development of our law in many important particulars, that to attempt a new classification or nomenclature would be confusing if not presumptuous. Mr. Benjamin's text, more over, has been freely drawn upon for statements of the Eng lish law. 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.