ON THE

LAW OF BAILMENTS,

WITH

ILLUSTRATIONS

FROM

THE CIVIL AND THE FOREIGN LAW.

BY

JOSEPH STORY, LL. D.,

DANE PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Leges autem a me edentur non perfectæ (nam esset infinitum), sed ipsæ
summæ rerum, atque sententiæ. - CIC. DE LEGIBUS.

CAMBRIDGE:

HILLIARD AND BROWN,

BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

1832.

Entered according to the act of Congress in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one

by JOSEPH STORY,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

L 5830

MAY 1 2 1932

CAMBRIDGE:

E. W. METCALF AND COMPANY,
Printers to the University.

VRAGELI GROMATE

TO THE

HONORABLE NATHAN DANE, LL. D.,

DISTINGUISHED ALIKE

FOR PURITY, SIMPLICITY, AND DIGNITY

IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE;

FOR

TALENTS, LEARNING, AND FIDELITY

IN HIS PROFESSION;

AND FOR

PUBLIC LABOURS IN THE STATE AND NATIONAL COUNCILS,

WHICH

HAVE CONFERRED ON HIM AN IMPERISHABLE

FAME

AS A STATESMAN AND PATRIOT: :

THIS WORK,

THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE PROFESSORSHIP

FOUNDED BY HIS BOUNTY,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND AND SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.