Of elementary treatises on all the principal subjects of the law. The special features of these books are as follows: 1. A succinct statement of leading principles in blackletter type. 2. A more extended commentary, elucidating the princi ples. 3. Notes and authorities. Published in regular octavo form, and sold at the uniform price of $3.75 per volume, including delivery. Bound in American Law Buckram. 3. (2d Ed.) Shipman on Common-Law Pleading. (2d Ed.) 4. Clark on Contracts. (2d Ed.) 17. 18. 19. Tiffany on Persons and Domestic Relations. (2d Ed.) Croswell on Executors and Administrators. Clark on Corporations. (2d Ed.) 29. Ingersoll on Public Corporations. 30. Hughes on Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure. 31. 32. Childs on Suretyship and Guaranty. Costigan on American Mining Law. In preparation: Handbooks of the law on other subjects to be announced later. Published and for sale by WEST PUBLISHING CO., ST. PAUL, MINN. C5855d By FRANCIS B. TIFFANY ST. PAUL, MINN. 1903 PREFACE. The object of this book, as has been explained more fully in the introductory chapter, is to present the general rules and principles of that part of the law of Agency which may conveniently be classed under the head of Principal and Agent. Topics which are commonly classed under the head of Master and Servant have been largely excluded, or have been discussed only incidentally. The scope of the book has been thus limited both because it was the desire of the writer to treat the matters considered with greater fullness of illustration in text and notes than would have been possible had its scope been enlarged, and because the matters excluded have been covered by other books in the Hornbook Series. The subject presents many difficult points as to which there is conflict of opinion, sometimes in respect to the rules, sometimes in respect to the reasons for the rules. It has been the aim to discuss these questions briefly and, when possible within the limited compass of an elementary book, to give expression to the views of the judges in leading cases; and on all points treated to cite, in addition to the leading cases, a sufficient number of the later cases to make the book serviceable to the practitioner as well as to the student. The author desires to express his obligation to the many writers who have contributed to formulate and classify this branch of the law, and particularly to Story, whose Commentaries are still indispensable to the student; to Prof. Floyd R. Mechem, whose great treatise deservedly ranks as a standard of authority; to Prof. Ernest W. Huffcut, whose (v) recent book has done so much to clarify and illuminate the subject; to William Bowstead, Esquire, whose Digest of the Law of Agency admirably fulfills its object of reducing the English law to a concise statement of definite rules and principles; and to Prof. Eugene Wambaugh, whose full and discriminating Selection of Cases forms a basis for the study of Agency. F. B. T. St. Paul, June 1, 1903. |