A ✓ TREATISE ON THE LAWS OF Commerce and Manufactures, AND THE CONTRACTS RELATING THERETO: WITH AN APPENDIX OF TREATIES, STATUTES, AND PRECEDENTS. BY JOSEPH CHITTY, Esq. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, LAW-PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY; FOR HENRY BUTTERWORTH, LAW BOOKSELLER, J. M. RICHARDSON, CORNHILL; BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH; ADVERTISEMENT ΤΟ THE FOUR VOLUMES. IT is necessary to apprize the Reader that in the Progress of printing this Work some of the Acts. there referred to, especially those relating to the Navigation Laws, have been repealed or modified by the S Geo. 4. c. 42, 43, 44, and 45, and other Acts; and as it is impracticable in a Work of this Magnitude to state every Enactment or Decision existing at the Time it is published, the Author proposes to publish annually an Appendix or concise Statement of the Enactments and Decisions in the preceding Year, so as to continue the practical Utility of the Work. The Author cannot refrain from acknowledging the valuable Assistance of his Son, Mr. THOMAS CHITTY, in preparing the Third and Fourth Volumes for Publication. 28th November 1823. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR CHARLES ABBOTT, Lord Chief Justice of England, &c. &c. &c. THIS WORK IS DEDICATED, WITH THE HIGHEST RESPECT FOR THOSE GREAT LEGAL TALENTS AND THAT ENLIGHTENED JUDGMENT WHICH SO EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED HIM AS AN ADVOCATE AND ULTIMATELY RAISED HIM TO THE HIGH JUDICIAL SITUATION HE NOW FILLS, WITH NO LESS HONOUR TO HIMSELF THAN BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY. |