Excerpt from Cyclopedia of Law, Vol. 8: The Elements of the Law of Sales of Personal Property and Equity or Chancery Jurisprudence; Comprising the Principles of Law Governing All Contracts of Sale, Including the Formation of the Contract This volume contains a fund of legal knowledge which should be possessed by every individual. The rights and duties of parties to a contract, the effects of the Statute of Frauds and all those things so essential to know relative to contracts and the parties thereto, are fully and authoritatively shown. It shows the principles of Jurisdiction, Maxims and Doctrines of Equity and Wherein equity administers, or rather interprets, the law, when, for some reason, the law is shown to be deficient. It has been written with the most studious care and for the purpose of assisting the reader in the acquisition of the law on the subjects named in the volume. The advanced student and the practicing lawyer will find it a dependable book for reference, calling their attention to authorities and rules of law which are treated with greater elaboration in other works. 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.