CYCLOPEDIA OF LAW

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS

AND

PRINCIPAL AND SURETY

CONTAINING

A FULL DISCUSSION OF THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY
OF COMMERCIAL PAPER, BILLS OF EXCHANGE,
PROMISSORY NOTES, AND THE LAW OF
GUARANTY AND SURETYSHIP, WITH
STATUTORY MODIFICATIONS

INCLUDING

LEADING CASES

VOLUME VI

EDITOR IN CHIEF

HON. CHARLES E. CHADMAN, LL.B., LL.M., LL.D.

ASSISTED BY

A CORES CF LEGAL EXPERTS'.

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW
CHICAGO, U. S. A.

COPYRIGHT 1906

BY

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW

CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT 1908

BY

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW

CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT 1912

BY

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF LAW

CHICAGO

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JUL & & 1941

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED

In writing and compiling the twelve volumes constituting the Cyclopedia of Law, neither time or expense was spared to make it what it is, the best and most comprehensive work of its character ever published. It has received the endorsement of many of the highest legal authorities in America.

The standard authorities of the world were consulted during the time of its compilation, notably :

Digest of Fire Insurance Deci- Insurance; Electric Law; Dam

J. W. MAY,

GEORGE H. SMITH,

Elements of Right and of the Law.

JAMES F. STEPHEN,

Stephen's Practice; Digest of Evidence; Criminal Law, etc.

HANNIS TAYLOR,

Law of Crime; Insurance; U. s. International Law;

Supreme Court Practice; Fraud

ulent Conveyances.

G. L. FHILLIPS,

Code Pleading.

J. H. PURDY,
Private Corporations.

H. E. PAINE,
Law of Election.

J. RAM,

Ram's Facts; Legal Judgments.

W. C. ROBINSON,

American Jurisprudence; Elementary Law; Forensic Oratory; Law of Patents.

Jurisdiction

and Procedure of U. S. Su

preme Court.

C. G. TIEDEMAN,

Bills, Notes and Checks; Commer cial Paper; Municipal Corporations; American Law of Real Property.

BRADLEY M. THOMPSON,

Cases of Equity Pleading and
Practice.

H. C. UNDERHILL,

Criminal Evidence; Trusts and
Trustees; Wills.

GEORGE W. WARVELLE,

Abstracts of Title; Ejectments;
Ethics; Real Property, etc.

FRANCIS WHARTON,
American Law; Agency; Conflict
of Laws; Contracts; Criminal
Law; International Law;
Law of Negligence,
etc., etc.

JOHN H. WIGMORE,
Examinations in Law.

J. G. WOERNER,
American Guardianship.