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COMMERCIAL LAW,

RELATING TO

EVERY KIND OF BUSINESS:

WITH

FULL INSTRUCTIONS AND PRACTICAL FORMS,

ADAPTED TO

ALL THE STATES OF THE UNION.

BY

FRANKLIN CHAMBERLIN,

OF THE UNITED STATES BAR.

21051

HARTFORD:

PUBLISHED BY O. D. CASE AND COMPANY.
1875.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875,

BY FRANKLIN CHAMBERLIN,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

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A learned Lawyer, a safe and prudent Counselor, a courteous, patient, and impartial Judge; adding another to the list of honored lives that have illustrated and adorned American Jurisprudence in the place which he filled so honorably to himself and so fortunately for his State; proving that a man may be a learned and laborious Lawyer, an excellent Judge, and at the same time and always a sincere and faithful Christian and a courteous Gentleman: this effort of his former Partner and Friend is most respectfully dedicated by

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

THE learned and elegant author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England, speaking from an English stand point, makes, in his ' first lecture, the following suggestions: "A competent knowledge of the laws of the society in which we live, is the proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar. As every person is interested in the preservation of the laws of his country, it is incumbent upon every man to be acquainted, at least, with those laws with which he is immediately concerned. Gentlemen of fortune are ambitious to represent their country in parliament. When they occupy that station, they become the guardians of the English constitution, and the makers, repealers, and interpreters of the English law.

"It must appear unbecoming in a member of the legislature to vote for a new law while ignorant of the old; to attempt to interpret a law while ignorant of the text on which he comments."

What Blackstone here says of English gentlemen, should apply, in a measure and with proper modification, to every man in our country; and I think we may properly say that a successful result of our American experiment of government by universal suffrage, demands that the governing citizen of the State shall be educated, to a reasonable degree, in the constitution and laws of his country.

Every such citizen is liable at any time, upon the call of his fellows, to be required to assist in making the laws by which he and his countrymen are to be governed; and while it cannot at present be expected that all will acquire such knowledge of the principles of legislation, as will, without special experience, fit them to legislate wisely, it may perhaps reasonably be hoped that the business men of

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