A methodical treatise, concerning bills of exchange. Wherein is an account of the rise and progress of exchange; the nature and kinds of it explained; the prevailing custom of merchants, illustrated and confirm'd from civil law, the authority of lawyers and writers, ancient and modern, forein statutes, and sentences of courts, acts of Parliament, and decisions of the Lords of Session; and all curious and useful cases, questions and controversies touching bills fairly stated and discuss'd, according to the analogy of the Scots Law. By William Forbes advocat.

FORBES, William.

Published by Edinburgh: printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson. : and are to be sold at John Vallange's shop., 1703

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16cm. [xii], 178[2]pp. Contemporary blind-stamped calf, raised bands. Binding rubbed and worn - split to bottom compartment of spine; title margins browned; closed tear to tile-page lower margin; small piece cut from lower margin of A2 with loss of 't' from 'crept'. Forbes was the first Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow University. The first work on the subject to be published in Scotland; indeed it was also the author's first published work. A second (and extended) edition was published in 1718. ESTC: 8/1/5. Goldsmiths 3988, Hanson 318. Seller Inventory # 42895

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Title: A methodical treatise, concerning bills of ...

Publisher: Edinburgh: printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson. : and are to be sold at John Vallange's shop.

Publication Date: 1703