Excerpt from Hand-Book of the Law of Sales The object of this handbook is to present concisely the general principles of the law of the sale of personal property. The arrange ment is in the main that of Benjamin. The statement of rules and principles in the black-letter text has to a considerable extent, though with many modifications, necessitated by the difierences between the American and English law, or by other reasons, been taken from the English Sale of Goods Bill, as drafted by his Honor, Judge Chalm ers, and published together with his invaluable notes under the title of The Sale of Goods. This bill, which was purely a codify ing measure, has since been substantially enacted as An act for codifying the law relating to the sale of goods (56 57 Vict. C. 71; February 20, The writer has made frequent use both of the notes of Judge Chalmers and of the text of Benjamin on Sales. The references to Benjamin are to the sections as found in the sixth American edition, of Messrs. Edmund H. And Samuel 0. Bennett. 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.