Excerpt from Commentaries on American Law, Vol. 1 Having been encouraged to suppose that the publica tion of the Lectures might render them more extensively useful, I have been induced to submit the present volume to the notice of students and of the junior members of the profession, for whose use they were originally com piled. Another volume is wanting, to embrace all the material parts of the Lectures which have been com posed. It will treat, at large, and in an elementary manner, of the law of property, and of personal rights, and commercial contracts; and will be prepared for the press in the course of the ensuing year, unless in the mean time there should be reason to apprehend, that another volume would be trespassing too far upon the patience and indulgence of the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.