Download or read book A Supplement to the Commentaries on the Law of Contracts, Vol. 8 written by Wllllam F. Elliott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Supplement to the Commentaries on the Law of Contracts, Vol. 8: Bringing the Law of Each Section of the Original Text Down to the Present Time and Adding All New Points of Law Subsequently Decided This supplement is prepared on the plan devised and worked out by Edward F White, editor - in-chief of the publishers' staff, in the supplements to Thompson on Negligence and Thompson on Corporations, which have been widely used for several years and generally approved. It brings the original work down to date in such a manner as to. Offer nearly all the advantages of a complete new edition of, the entire set at a very small fraction of its cost. It seems to be the ideal way to keep such a text-book up to date and enable the attorney to find most readily, with least trouble and expense, the later authorities, and the present state of the law. The original sections are taken up one by one in their regular order as numbered, and the supporting authorities are cited and changes or modifications and new applications of the law are carefully noted. This makes it very easy to find the law and authorities upon the particular subject or phase of the subject that may be under consideration. An unusually full index, covering both text and notes, and based on the descriptive word plan as Well as the ordinary method, is a further aid, especially where new sections have been added in order to present new points de cided since the original work was published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.