GoodEve, Louis Arthur

GOODEVE'S

MODERN LAW

OF

PERSONAL PROPERTY.

FOURTH EDITION

Revised and partly Rewritten

BY

JOHN HERBERT WILLIAMS, LL.B.,

ONE OF THE EDITORS OF SMITH'S LEADING CASES;

JOINT AUTHOR OF WILLIAMS AND YATES ON EJECTMENT;

AND

WILLIAM MORSE CROWDY, B.A.,

BOTH OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTERS-AT-LAW.

LONDON:

SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE, W.C.

TORONTO: CANADA LAW BOOK CO.

1904.

ик 915

600

PREFACE

TO THE FOURTH EDITION.

THIS edition of the work of the late Mr. L. A. Goodeve, which is intended to be a companion volume to the Author's Book on the "Modern Law of Real Property," has been carefully revised and brought up to date. The present editors having to some extent re-written and re-arranged the last edition, they have not found it necessary to make any considerable alterations in the present edition.

Believing that it is desirable in the case of a book of this character to prevent as far as possible its size increasing with every edition, the editors have by careful condensation succeeded in preventing any material increase in the size of the volume although much new matter has been added.

During the comparatively short period which has elapsed since the appearance of the third edition there have not been any great codifications of the law, such as the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, and the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, which made it necessary to re-write some chapters of the last edition; but the Companies Act, 1900, has necessitated considerable additions to the chapter on Companies, while recent decisions have caused some important additions to and alterations in the chapters on Choses in Action, Patents, Trade Marks, and Copyright.