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ON THE LAW OF

PERSONAL PROPERTY.

BY

JOSEPH J. DARLINGTON, LL.D.,

OF GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF LAW.

FOUNDED ON THE TREATISE OF JOSHUA WILLIAMS, ESQ.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO.

LIBRARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

A42694

COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY

T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO.

PREFACE.

THAT Mr. Williams's treatise upon the law of Personal Property did not attain, in America, equal eminence with that author's invaluable work upon the law of Real Property was due solely to the fact that so large a proportion of the former was devoted to summarizing modern English statutory provisions, and the decisions under them, of little, if any, value or interest here. So much of that work as was devoted to the statement of principles, and to the consideration of adjudicated questions of general application, remoins unequaled in its concise comprehensiveness, clearness and accuracy.

The object of the present edition has been two-fold, namely: To eliminate entirely from the original work so much of its text as is inapplicable in the United States, and to supply, instead, a further presentation, upon the latest authorities, English and American, of the law of the subjects treated of in the retained text, together with that of sundry topics of importance not therein discussed. The few notes which have been retained are, as indicated by the initials "G. & W.," the work of the learned editors of the last edition of Williams on Personal Property, Messrs. Gerhard and Wetherill, of the Philadelphia bar.

The title of the present volume is a compromise. The writer, of course, could not consent to claim as his own any part of the work of another, while neither the publishers nor the writer have been willing to offer to the profession, under the sanction of Mr. Wiiliams's name, a book the greater part of which lacks the advantage of his eminent abilities. The present title has, therefore, been agreed upon, to be accompanied by this explanation:

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