The Cornell Law Quarterly (Volume 7) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... The same material is handled but in a different way. For example, the first hundred pages of the book are devoted to the source and origin of business law and the position of the business man in the law. One finds under the heading "Contractual Modes of Safeguarding and Facilitating Credit Operations" so much of the law of Guaranty and Suretyship, Mortgages and Conditional Sales, Pledges, and Negotiable Instruments as the business man will have use for. Any departure from the old way is bound to be criticized by some and this book is certainly a radical departure from the old methods of teaching business law. The writer believes that this book fills the need of business schools as no other book has done. The same view seems to be shared by many others for the book has already met with a warm reception on the part of teachers of business law throughout the country. There is only one possible objection from the writer's point of view and that is that it may be a little too difficult for the average student. However, that difficulty may be met by assigning more time to the subject than has been done in the past in some of the schools of the country. It is certainly not a high school book as so many of the present works on the market are. The authors are to be complimented on incorporating in their work extracts from legal periodicals. Too few in the past have realized the value of the articles appearing in them. It is a little difficult to see of what use it is to the business man to know what is meant by the "jus disponendi" and the "Justium Pretium" since it is believed that a great many lawyers could not tell without consulting their dictionaries. But the work as a whole is excellent and undoubtedly sets a new standard for this sort of work, which will be...