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Common Law. Particular Customs
Inserenda
"your service". Here is a hiring. Here is a contract
enter'd into. At what price shall I What am I to pay for him? How long
am I to keep him for? What if any accident
should happen to him by his own act, by mine your's
by that of your servant? At All these are incidents events
not provided for by the terms of the contract, but
which tend to bring a burthen which one or other of
us will be obliged to bear. Which of us then shall
bear it. If we have not determined for ourselves
it is in the Law that must determine for us.
No 5.
For examples see Beaver's Lex Mercatoria, p.36.
No 6
Particular Customs it is to be observed he has explained
by calling them laws which affect only the
inhabitants of particular districts. Now in what
particular districts is it that Traders live.
No 7 NOTE [a]
[a] Merchants. By Merchants we are not to understand
him in common speech that sort of trader whose traffic
is with foreign countries, and in wholesale. By What is
called in Technical language the Law of Merchants is a branch of Law that
concerns Traders of all sorts. Of This it might have been
as well for our Author to have given notice
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