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; foreign Statutes and Sentences of Courts; Scottish and English Acts of Parliament; and Decisions of the Lords of Session; and all curious and useful Cases, Questions and Controversies, touching Bills fairly stated and discussed, according to the Analogy of the Law of Scotland: With indent comparative Views of the Laws and Customs of England, and other Countries. For the Benefit of the English, our Law Terms are explain'd by these equipollent in their Law. By William Forbes Advocate, Professor of Law in the University of Glasgow.

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M.DCC.XVIII [1718]