The Law Merchant and Negotiable Instruments in Colonial New York, 1664 to 1730

by Herbert Alan Johnson

Excerpt from The Law Merchant and Negotiable Instruments in Colonial New York, 1664 to 1730

Professor Paul M. Hamlin of New York Law School and Proies sor Lawrence H. Leder of Brandeis University. Without the co operation of the staffs at the new-york Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the Office of the City Clerk of New York City, and the Division of Records, New York County Clerk's Office, this study could never have been undertaken.

97 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2010

About the author

Herbert A. Johnson is the Ernest F. Hollings Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law in Columbia. A past president of the American Society for Legal History, Johnson is a former editor of The Papers of John Marshall.