Excerpt from Cyclopedia of Law, Vol. 5: Agency and Bailments Including Common Carriers Presenting Clearly and With Brevity the Law Governing Delegated Authority, Showing the Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of the Various Classes of Bailees, Including Innkeepers, Postmasters, Telegraph Companies Those conversant with law will appreciate, - though they glance through this book in the most casual manner - that it contains much that pertains to'the commercial existence of every State and this country as a whole. Agency exists in many forms, and effects all, from the most menial individual to the most powerful corporation. The scope of agency, with all the minutia incidental to it, is treated of in a manner simple and easy to under stand by all people, though they have but a common school education. 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.