A

TREATISE

ON

THE LAWS

OF

Commerce and Manufactures,

AND

THE CONTRACTS

RELATING THERETO:

WITH

AN APPENDIX OF PRECEDENTS.

BY JOSEPH CHITTY, Esq.
OF THE MIDDle temple, BARRISTER AT LAW.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

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THIRD VOLUME.

THE Contents of this Volume will appear from the
following Table and concluding Index, and cor-

respond with the Arrangement of the Work proposed

in the Preface, (ante, vol. 1. page xiv.) It is hoped

that this Part of the Work will be found practically

useful to the Profession, and that it will also afford to

Students, whether of Law or Commerce, a systematic

View of all the most usual Contracts and Liabilities

affecting the private Interests of Trade.

1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF

THIRD VOLUME.

CHAP. I.

Of contracts in general, 1 to 162. (See Index, tit. "Contract.")

Page

2,3

3 to 11

5 to 11

11 to 63

63 to 69

6. Modes of testifying assent to, and time and place of making of, 103 to 106

See also 279 to 283

7. Of the construction and legal operation of

106 to 118

8. Of the performance of, 118 to 139.-(See Index, " Payment.")

9. How a contract may be suspended or delayed in its performance,

or altered, cancelled, or annulled, released or excused per-

formance.

1. How it may be suspended or delayed

139

2. How altered by addition or erasure in writing, &c., 140 to 144.
-(See Index, tit. "Alteration.")