THE JUDICIAL DECISIONS AND MERCANTILE PRACTICE BY THE LATE GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, ESQ. PROFESSOR OF THE LAW OF SCOTLAND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. PHILADELPHIA: T. & J. W. JOHNSON, LAW BOOKSELLERS, 1845. 472 THIS Work was composed by PROFESSOR BELL a short time before his death, and was in part printed when he died. He had for some time been engaged in the preparation of a series of similar Treatises on other subjects relative to Commercial Law. But this is the only one which he had finally revised for publication. CONTENTS. The pages referred to are those between brackets [ THE NATURE AND EFFECT IN GENERAL OF THE CONTRACT OF Sale, as RECOGNISED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, 1. Sale of Specific Goods ready for delivery, 2. Sale of a quantity of Goods to be separated from a mass, (2.) Contracts inconsistent with War Policy, 1. Sale of a Specific Subject, 2. Sale of a quantity to be taken from a larger, II. Proof of the Contract of Sale, Of Sales in which writing is indispensable, Of Sales where writing is not indispensable, 2. Proof of Sale by the Law of America, 3. Proof of Sale by the Law of Scotland, 4. Proof of Sale by the Law of France, 5. Proof of Sale by the Law of Holland, 6. Proof of Sale, as settled by Brokers, Travelling Agents, or Mercantile 7. Conclusion of the View of the Law of Evidence of Sale, |