ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION. IN preparing this Edition about 127 pages of new matter have been added to the Notes, and a large number of new Cases have been cited. Those Cases which were decided too late for insertion in their proper places, while the work was going through the press, appear in the Addenda. March, 1868. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE plan of this selection of Leading Cases is like that adopted in similar collections. Cases frequently cited in our Courts, or in which some important principle was first enunciated in clear and decisive terms, are first chosen, and to these are appended Notes, in which an attempt is made to develope the principles laid down in the Cases, great care being at the same time taken to notice the recent authorities. The Cases in this work may be divided into two important divisions; the first, relating to ordinary mercantile law in time of peace; the second, relating to the effect of war, and especially of maritime war, upon the property and contracts of merchants. In the first class of Cases will be found principally the judgments of Lord Hardwicke, C., Lord Mansfield, C. J., Eyre, C. J., Lawrence, J., Lord Eldon, C., Sir Wm. Grant, M. R., Lord Redesdale, C., Lord Ellenborough, C. J., Lord Tenterden, C. J., Lord Brougham, C., Lord Abinger, C. B., and Parke, B. (now Lord Wensleydale),-judges than whom the authority of none can be higher in all questions relating to mercantile law. The second class of Cases consists principally, as might be expected, of the decisions of Sir William Scott (better known now perhaps as Lord Stowell), whose judgments have, with no undue strain of compliment, been termed models of judicial eloquence. The subjects illustrated by the decisions selected as "Leading Cases," and the annotations thereon, will be found in the annexed List of Cases reported. 16, OLD SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN March, 1860. LIST OF CASES REPORTED. BETSEY, THE, Murphy, Master. (Blockade) PAGE . 1013 92 BREMEN FLUGGE, THE, Meyer, Master. (Capture of Enemy's Goods on board Neutral Ship) CHASE. WESTMORE. (Possessory Lien) . 1045 CRAWSHAY . MAULE. (Partnership - Dissolution of by 356 1 494 1 DEVAYNES V. NOBLE-CLAYTON'S CASE. (Appropriation of DIXON . SADLER. (Insurance-Implied Warranties-Sea y. worthiness) 127 DON v. LIPPMANN. (Conflict of Laws-Foreign ContractsForeign Judgments-Enforcement of in this country) 613 FORBES . ASPINALL. (Maritime Insurance-Particular Average-Adjustment of Average) FORTUNA, THE, Tadsen, Master. (Capture of Enemy's Ship FREDERICK MOLKE, THE, Boysen, Master. (Blockade) HARMAN v. FISHAR. (Bankruptcy-Fraudulent Preference) 773 HOOP, THE, Cornelis, Master. (Trade with the Enemy Licenses) 921 IMMANUEL, THE, Eysenberg, Master. (Colonial Trade of Enemy-Rule of War of 1756) 948 JOHNSON v. SHEDDON. (Maritime Insurance-Particular 232 JONGE MARGARETHA, THE, Klausen, Master. (Contraband JOY. CAMPBELL. (Bankruptcy-Reputed Ownership) LEWIS v. RUCKER. (Maritime Insurance-Particular Average -Adjustment of Average) PAGE 695 353 LINGHAM V. BIGGS. (Bankruptcy-Reputed Ownership) 688 MACE v. CADELL. (Bankruptcy-Reputed Ownership) 686 MARIA, THE, Paulsen, Master. (Right of Visitation and MARKET OVERT, THE CASE OF. (Sale in Market Overt) 274 ROUX v. SALVADOR. (Insurance-Total Loss-Abandonment) 166 ROWLANDSON, EX PARTE. (Bankruptcy-Joint Creditors— Separate Creditors-Double Proof). RUFFIN, EX PARTE. (Partnership-Conversion of Joint into 832 SANDILANDS v. MARSH. (Partnership-Power of Partner to bind the Firm) 464 SANTA CRUZ, THE, Picoa, Master. (Recapture from the Enemy-Salvage) TWEE GEBROEDERS, THE, Northolt, Master. (Protection of TYRIE v. FLETCHER. (Maritime Insurance-Return of WATERS v. TAYLOR. (Partnership-Dissolution of by different modes-Effects of) WHILELMINA, THE, Otto. (Colonial Trade of Enemy-Rule WHITEHEAD V. ANDERSON. (Stoppage in transitu) WISEMAN V. VANDEPUTT. (Stoppage in transitu) WOOLRIDGE v. BOYDELL. (Insurance-Implied Warranties Change of Voyage-Deviation) WORSELEY V. DE MATTOS. (Act of Bankruptcy-Fraudulent |