Excerpt from Sales, Personal Property, Bailments, Carriers, Patents, Copyrights, Vol. 5: Examination Questions Far from being a matter of recent development, the law of sales, being an ancient form of contract, is naturally one Of almost certain and fixed principles, though it is not possible to say that in a country as vast as ours, and made up of so many different state governments, that there is absolute accord of decision in the law of sales. There is not. We find however, today, that the law of sales has been little changed by any recent legislation and that the law today is for the most part made up of the Common law rules, and that English decisions on question of sales are frequently cited in American courts and are found of special value. It is true also, that our own institutions, and circumstances, have made it essential to make a peculiar application of certain common law principles, and to reject or render obsolete certain rules of the English law, that have not become a part of our jurisprudence. 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.