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The
Negotiable Instruments
Law Annotated
WITH
References to the English Bills of Exchange
Act and with the Cases under the
Negotiable Instruments Law and
the Bills of Exchange Act
and Comments thereon
BY
JOSEPH DODDRIDGE BRANNAN
Bussey Professor ot Law in Harvard University
Together with Comments and Criticisms on the Negotiable Instruments Law
(Reprinted from the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal and the American Law Reeister)
JAMES BARR AMES (Dean of the Harvard Law School), JUDGE LYMAN D. BREWSTER (Formerly President of the State Boards of Commissioners for Promoting Uniformity of Legislation), and CHARLES L. McKEEHAN, Esq. (Formerly Lecturer on the Law of Bills and Notes in the University of Pennsylvania)
SECOND EDITION
REVISED-- RE-ARRANGED-- ENLARGED
CINCINNATI
THE W. H. ANDERSON COMPANY
Copyright, 190S,
Bt thb Trustees or the Habtabd Law Review.
Copyright, 1908,
Br THE Habtabd Law Review AssociAnoir.
Copyright, 19ll,
Bt J. D. Bbannan.
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
The Negotiable Instruments Law is based upon and largely copied from the English Bills of Exchange Act, a c…