Lex Mercatoria: Or, The Merchant's Companion. Containing all the.

Jacob, Giles

Publication Date: 1729

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London, 1729. 2d ed. With A "Merchants's Dictionary of Words and Terms" [Jacob, Giles (1686-1744)]. Lex Mercatoria: Or, The Merchant's Companion. Containing all the Laws and Statutes Relating to Merchandize. Wherein Our Trade with Foreign Nations, and Trade in General Amongst Our Selves, With What Belongs to Particular Companies, And all Maritime Affairs, In the way of Traffick, Are Illustrated and Concisely Treated of; Under the Heads of Merchants, And Owners of Ships, Masters, Mariners, Pilots, Freight, and Charter-Parties of Affreightment, Insurance, Bottomry, Customs, Wrecks, Factors, Planters and Plantations, Letters of Marque and Reprisal, Privateers, Piracy, Treaties of Commerce, Exchange, &c. With an Introduction, Setting Forth the Laws of Nature and of Nations, Dominion of the Sea, &c. Some Curious and Useful History, And Variety of Special Cases and Determinations Interspers'd Thro' the Whole. To Which are Added, in Proper Places, The Best Adapted Precedents of Instruments and Writings Made Use of in All Cases Relating to Trade. [London]: Printed by E. and R. Nutt [et al.] for B. Motte [et al.], 1729. [xii], 404, [12] pp. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5"). Contemporary calf, blind fillets and rules to boards, raised bands to spine, gilt dentelles to board edges. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints and hinges starting. Light toning to text, negligible foxing to a few leaves, internally clean. A handsome copy. $950. * Second and final edition, "Corrected, with the Addition of Three Entire New Chapters, And Also A Merchant's Dictionary, of Words and Terms, &c." Both a treatise and a handbook, it provides infomation ranging from a form for "An Assignment of Negroes" (pp. 170-171) to a discussion of the South Sea Company (pp. 288-295). Its first edition was published in 1718. Known for his New Law-Dictionary, Jacob was the most prolific English legal writer of the eighteenth century. Although he was interested in boosting sales by attracting the widest audience possible, Jacob was also an idealist who believed that widespread knowledge of the law would help create a more just society. This is the goal of Lex Mercatoria (1718) and several other publications, such as Every Man His Own Lawyer (1736) and Treatise of Laws (1721). English Short-Title Catalogue T137820. Seller Inventory # 64182

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Title: Lex Mercatoria: Or, The Merchant's Companion...

Publication Date: 1729

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: London, 1729. 2d ed.

Edition: 1st Edition