bt. Brit, Laws, statines, etc, Corporation law 6 # May 18 A DIGEST 50 OF THE LAW OF PARTNERSHIP, INCORPORATING THE PARTNERSHIP ACT, 1890. BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, M.A., HON. LL.D. EDIN. AND DUBLIN, CORPUS PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, SIXTH EDITION. 80 STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, Jaw Publishers and Booksellers. PREFACE. THE form of this work is no longer a matter of private choice as to the greater part of it, and therefore no longer needs an apologetic introduction. It will suffice to explain how the book became, in its fifth edition, an edition of an Act of Parliament, and could become so while preserving most of its original substance. In 1877, having been asked to write a concise work on Partnership, I determined to follow Sir James Stephen's example in his Digest of the Law of Evidence (an example which then stood alone), and to frame the book on the pattern of the Anglo-Indian Codes. It then seemed to me possible that Parliament might be induced to adopt Macaulay's invention of adding authoritative illustrations to the enacting text of a code; I call it Macaulay's, for I have not found in earlier writers, including Bentham, more than slight rudiments of the idea, and its first distinct appearance was certainly in the draft of the Indian Penal Code. But at all events this method of statement enables the private author of a Digest in codified form to exhibit in the |