Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Stock Brokers The transactions growing out of the sale and hypothecation of the securities dealt in at the Stock Exchange already form, both in their number and magnitude, one of the most important branches of business carried on in great commercial centres, and the questions arising out of them are subjects upon which the lawyer is almost daily called upon to advise. Several excellent works have been written on kindred subjects, which, however, have been devoted rather to the character of such securities, and the obligations they impose upon the corporations issuing them, than to the law governing the parties buying and selling them. In the present work the authors have attempted to discuss the law relating to the agents in these transactions, - stock brokers and their customers, - and the character of the thing sold, so far as it relates to questions arising out of sales of it. 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.