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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, Vol. 1 Here I would have gladly stopped but the necessities of the practicing lawyer and the precedent of previous editions seemed to call for a summary of the law of stamps; and this I have accordingly added in a separate book, which the student, who will find in it little to reward him, can avoid. Although I have endeavored, in the manner above stated, to throw the work, so far as its principal divisions are concerned, into a somewhat more systematic and logical form, i cannot flatter myself that I have carried out my design into all the details of the work. Such a task would have required far more leisure than I have been able to find in the short interval which has elapsed since the last edition, which is now exhausted, was published. Some little I have done, and morei hope to do, if I am permitted to revise another edition; but I must trust to the indulgence of the profession to excuse many defects of which I am painfully conscious. The reader will notice that the type has been enlarged, and that the Index is no longer printed in double columns, an alteration which will be found considerably to increase the facility of using it, as it admits of easier distinction of the subjects falling under each head by variations of the marginal spaces. The head-notes of the different chapters, which, being printed in double columns and without refer ence to the pages, were quite useless, have been omitted. 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.