THE

LAW OF CONTRACTS.

BY

JOHN WILLIAM SMITH, Esq.,

AUTHOR OF

LATE OF THE INNER TEMPLE, TARRISTER-AT-LAW,

LEADING CASES," 66 A TREATISE ON MERCANTILE LAW," ETC.

Sixth American

FROM THE SIXTH LONDON EDITION,

BY

VINCENT T. THOMPSON, Esq., M.A.,

OF LINCOLN'S INN, AND OF THE MIDLAND CIRCUIT, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.

WITH

NOTES AND REFERENCES TO BOTH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN

DECISIONS,

BY WILLIAM HENRY RAWLE.

AND WITH

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND REFERENCES TO RECENT AMERICAN

CASES,

By GEORGE SHARSWOOD, LL.D.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO.,

535 CHESTNUT STREET.

1878.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by

T. & J. W. JOHNSON & CO.,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

L 6905

DEC 16 1932

PRESS OF HENRY B. ASHMEAD,

1102 & 1104 Sansom Street.

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE SIXTH AMERICAN EDITION.

THE present has been printed from the last (sixth) English edition, in which the substance of the English notes to the former editions has been incorporated with the text. Much new matter, comprising the most recent statutes and the latest decided cases, has been added. The full and able notes of the former American editor have been retained; the work of the present editor having been to re-arrange these notes, so as to accommodate them to the altered arrangement of the work, and to add notes and references to later American

cases.

G. S.

PHILADELPHIA, December, 1877.