Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-02-06
A book for business Men.

Many years Sir Edward Sugden wrote LOT
an English law journal series of Letters to
| a Man of Property" These letters were writ
| en- in an attractive and popular style, and
| embraced such legal subjects as would be o.
| the greatest interest and use to country gen.
| fleman remote from town. who had often to
,ct, from want of advice.on his own Judgment.
The journal in which they were published was
much sought after. both in England and this
country. SO well did they cover the ground,
md so popular did they become that they
we're subsequently collected and published in
| nook form. The book met with an extensive
circulation, and, after Sir Edward became
lord Saint Leonard, was rewritten and a new
dition to the public called, 1 think. Lord at
Leonards Laws of Property which became
| still more popular with the legal profession
| and business men.
| few years later, Theophilus Parsons, Ii,
| D.. then in the zenith of his power as law
| yer, published work on The Laws of Bust
| ness" modelled after Lord st. Leonard's book.
| The first edition became quite as popular as
| the English work. and many of the clearest-
| headed business men of the country pronounc-
| ed it a book they could not afford to be with
out. Its popularity was not, however, so re-
markable, when we consider that Judge Par
| sons is SO well known In our courts as to need
| no introduction TO a lawyer. He was long
| time on the bench as Chief Justice ofhis native
| state, which position he resigned 10 accept the
chair of Law Pr feSsor In the Law School of
| Harvard University.
His former works WERE with one exception,
| written for lawyers exclusively. But he has
now prepared an edition OF "The Laws of Bus
| mess of broader and more practical scope OF
great use not only to lawyers and justices, bu'
lIso to bankers aud business men. To the first
| .ditiou, published nearly twenty years ago
ne had only given such leisure as the duties o.
law professor left him and complied it main
from the law books he had already made
| for the profession. He determined, therefore,
| to make at some future day new edition of
the work VIII CHI in course of time he COM
nenced. but became satisfied it would not SUI
| fee, and nothing acould cover all the ground
| the profession and practical business connmu-
nifty had right to expect but new copyright
and under it a nea0 book.
This new book has happily been brought to
perfection. 1t is distinguished from the old as
Tohn Bells Standard Edition of 1.-The Laws OF
Business" by Theophilus Parsons. LID. Il
entirely supersedes the edition modelled after
Lord st. Leonard's book, by not only covering
every imaginable position in which bust.
ness man can be placed, but also an entirely
new set of Statutory and Commerce Law
Forms. These forms are not in any sense to be
characterized with the ODD Anticipated copies
usually lound in the so-called Manuals"
-Compendums." Home Libraries" and "Ev-
cry Man his own Lawyer" publications, but
are such as have stood the test of judicial CRIT
icism, have been approved. and are therefore
TO be trusted. The author well saws: HE must
he bold law, sr who would prefer forms of
his own maxi 80 those which the courts and
common use have sanctioned A critical ex
mipation of them satisfies the writer that
they comprise the only complete and safe col
lection of the / ind he has ever seel. But az
,bove stated. this new STANDARD Edition" is
not designed as mere Form BooE, ;" but a
book embracing all the principles of that vast
system of Commercial Law and the Laws of
Property which must necessarily guide busi-
ness men and property holders In their daily
transactions and everyday relations. and
magistrates III their decisions. The hundreds
of legal questions it answers and explains are
of such diversity of application that one must
exam1ue the prospectus to form correct idea
of the many valuable features of the work. 1t
covers all those legal problems constantly
arising in the Justices Court and in connec
ton with real and personal property and with
n6gOIlaDle paper ana the trdnsacbiOn o. every
kind of business. and every principle discuss.
ed is concise y drawn from the most recent de-
cisiops of the courts.
It thus not only supersedes he edition mod
eled after Lord st. LeonaId's book, but is the
only book of its kind so far reaching in It's
scope and practical usefulness as to deserve and
receive the endorsement of the Chief Justices
of the United States, the Associate Justices
nf the Supreme Bench, the ChIef Judges of
Courts of Appeals, and the most eminent law
yers of the State.