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Excerpt from The Law of Agency It has long been the custom of law writers, follow ing perhaps the example of the early pioneers of the craft, to write text books for the enlightenment of practicing la/wyers. Within the past quarter century or so law writers have included in their hoped-for audience law students as well as lawyers. The result has not been as happy as might be desired, for law yers nowadays have little use for elementary text books of law - the great digests, encyclopedias, and many-volumed texts having almost completely sup planted the less ambitious work. The real situation is that the great majority of readers of such works are law students. But a book designed primarily for lawyers, and only as an afterthought for students, is not a successful students' book. A book for beginners should, we believe, be written with the needs of the beginner constantly in mind. It must be simple and concise - as happy in the choice of what to eliminate as what to retain. It must pre sent the fundamental principles clearly and vividly to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.