TO THE HONOURABLE JOHN SAVAGE, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. HAVING dedicated, by permission, the Law of Bankrupts to Lord Eldon, a Commercial Dictionary to Lord Ellenborough, and the American Trader's Compendium to the Honourable William Tilghman, Chief Justice of the State of Pennsylvania, I was ambitious of adding the name of a Judge of equal legal knowledge and talents. The permission therefore which you have been pleased to grant me of placing your name at the head of this work, demands the grateful acknowledgment of, Sir, Your most obedient, New-York, February, 1830. Humble Servant, J. MONTEFIORE. PREFACE. To offer to the Commercial world a concise and well of digested Synopsis of Mercantile law, is the purpose this work, for however excellent and of accurate learning and research, the several treatises lately published on Commercial Jurisprudence, they are more appropriate to the library of the legal profession, than the desk of the man of business. The author has selected his materials from the enactments of the Legislature, as also the several reporters and commercial writers of the most approved authority: the work being intended as a book of reference, as well for the professional Lawyer, as the Merchant, the author has in most cases cited his authorities. The Precedents in the Appendix were drawn by him in the course of his practice as an Attorney and Notary Public. Having premised thus much, he now ventures before that tribunal, from whose judgment there is no appeal. COMMERCIAL AND NOTARIAL PRECEDENTS. Another for money lent and advanced, paid, laid out and expended, Affidavit that a ship sailed and arrived under convoy and protection of an armed ship, and that she had not any cargo on board except Affidavit of the growth and manufacture of produce Another of the shipping of produce Affidavit respecting two foreign seamen impressed and detained on that C. D. second mate of a vessel, has the charge thereof that a ship arrived without any goods on account of C. and E. 8 10 Agreement between merchants (concerning goods bought at Leghorn) that each will be concerned in an equal part, and pay proportion of all Agreement for the sale of a parcel of goods on arrival of a ship for investing a sum of money to be laid out in the purchase of produce in the West Indies, and each party to have an equal share of |