A Treatise on the Law of Carriers of Goods and Passengers, by Land and by WaterThis 1849 treatise demonstrates the eforts of legal writers to free the transportation industry from rules developed in a pre-commercial society. |
Contents
Preliminary View of the Law of Bailments 1 | xxviii |
CHAPTER III | 48 |
CHAPTER V | 123 |
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