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Excerpt from International Commercial Law, Being the Principles of Mercantile Law of the Following and Other Countries, Viz, Vol. 1: England, Scotland, Ireland, British India, British Colonies, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hans Towns, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Prussia, Russia The late gifted and eminent Prince Consort, in a letter ad dressed to the author on the subject, which appeared in the first edition of this work, said, It cannot be doubted that uniformity in the laws by which commerce is regulated in different countries would be, if it could be Obtained, Of immense advantage to com merce generally. The question would be as to the mode of attain ing this uniformity. Nothing, His Royal Highness thinks, would tend more to give public Opinion a proper direction than such a publication as yours, where the legislative enactments of differ ent countries upon the same subject would be found in juxta position, and where the ready means thus afforded for comparing their relative merits would infallibly lead to a certain degree of assimilation, the advantage and convenience of which would be made obvious. Or, should it not lead to this result, the publication would, at all events, afford to the mercantile world the means Of knowing the points of difference in the various commercial codes on which it is most important for them to be correctly informed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any impe