ΤΟ THE FIFTH LONDON EDITION. THE increasing importance and practical utility of the Law relative to Bills of Exchange, and the numerous recent decisions on the subject, have induced the Author in this edition, with very considerable labour and anxiety, to recompose and enlarge the greatest part of the work-to insert in the notes full extracts from the leading cases, and to prefix an Alphabetical Index to the decisions.The Chapters relating to Partners-Bankers-Bankers' ChecksIndorsement-Acceptance-Notice of Non-acceptance and Nonpayment-and on the Declaration and Evidence, will be found to have been very considerably enlarged, and the General Index has been much improved.-Circumstances which, the author hopes, will be found to have rendered the work more worthy of the flattering reception it has received. TEMPLE, ADVERTISEMENT TO THIS AMERICAN EDITION. In this Edition the principal cases, which have been decided in the American Courts, have been collected and placed in notes under the paragraphs to which they seemed most distinctly to relate. They have been collected with as much care and diligence, as other engagements would allow; and the annotator aspires to no other claim, than for accuracy and appositeness of citation. He does not wish to be considered as in any instance undertaking to pronounce what cases are, or are not, to be deemed settled law. The recent English cases which have been published since the last English Edition of Mr. Chitty's treatise, will be here found incorporated into the Notes. |