PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. A SECOND EDITION of this book being required, advantage has been taken of the opportunity to reconstruct and almost entirely re-write it. The scope of the work has been enlarged, and the decisions in the latest reported cases have been embodied in the text. The plan so successfully adopted in the previous edition has been followed in this, the law being explained in language sufficiently clear to recommend itself to the comprehension of commercial men, for whose use the work is primarily intended. The cases cited will, it is hoped, be of occasional assistance to members of the legal profession by enabling them to verify the law on this subject when standard works like "Russell" and "Redman" are not convenient for reference. The Arbitration Bill in the Appendix was re-introduced this year into the House of Lords by Lord Denman, and read a second time in that assembly on March 9th. The object of its insertion is to show the lines upon which legislation on this branch of the law is likely to proceed, when the present unsettled condition of political affairs shall have passed away. ROYAL COURTS CHAMBERS, CHANCERY LANE, W.C. J. S. |