Excerpt from A Treatise: On the Law of Executors and Administrators The present work completes an investigation of the law of Personal Property, whose results the writer commenced publishing ten years ago; an investigation pursued far beyond the limits originally proposed, but not without direct encouragement from his professional brethren. Four volumes properly comprehend the main subject, as follows: 1. The Nature, General Incidents, and Leading Classes of Personal Property. Schouler on Personal Property, Vol. I. 2. Title to Personal Property by Original Acquisition, Gift and Sale. Schouler on Personal Property, Vol. II.; or, as it might well be styled, Schouler on Gifts and Sales. 3. Title to Personal Property by Bailment. Schouler On Bailments, including Carriers, Innkeepers and Pledge. 4. Title to Personal Property by Death. Schouler on Executors and Administrators. Elementary writers discourse further of Title to Personal Property by Judgment and Insolvency; but the law pertaining to these subjects is greatly controlled at this day by statutes of local application, and, besides, may be found amply discussed in text-books already familiar to the practitioner. 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.