A Commentary on the Sale of Goods Act, 1893: With Illustrative Cases and Frequent Citation from the Text of Mr. Benjamin's Treatise (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Commentary on the Sale of Goods Act, 1893: With Illustrative Cases and Frequent Citation From the d104 of Mr. Benjamin's Treatise

With regard to the second special feature of the book - the statements of the common law therein quoted from Mr. Benjamin's treatise - we submit that those lucid and accurate statements of legal principles will be found not to be out of place, even in a Commentary on an Act which is intended as a new stepping-stone in the development of the law. It is unnecessary to point out that Benjamin on Sale is or was a standard authority on its subject-matter, and also (for Lord Blackburn's earlier book was of only limited scope) the most complete. Its arrangement has been followed by the draftsman, and the Act has undoubtedly been generally based upon it. The extracts we have quoted from the book may therefore, we submit, throw valuable light on the inter pretation of the Act; in so far as they are consistent with the provisions of the latter, by containing in themselves a less concise, and therefore more lucid, statement of the principles involved; and, in so far as they may be inconsistent, by affording, it is hoped, a better key to the elucidation of the meaning of the various sections of the Act.

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