THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE, AND Commercial Review. CONDUCTED BY FREEMAN HUNT. VOLUME IV. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED AT 142 FULTON-STREET, (REAR BUILDING.) MDCCCXLI. 2 9 1917 1111373 ORIGINAL PAPERS. East India and the Opium Trade, by Francis Wharton, Esq....... A General Bankrupt Law, by J. Van Cott, Esq.......... Turkey, Egypt, and Mehemet Ali, by E. W. Stoughton, Esq.. The Coal Business of the United States, by J. Blunt, Esq.. Imprisonment for Debt......... Origin and Nature of Fire Insurance, by George W. Savage, Esq.......... Weights and Measures-Comparison of the Weights and Measures of the United States, and several countries with which they have commercial intercourse, by Coins, Weights, and Measures-Proposed change in Weights, Measures, and Money's in Great Britain and the United States, by D. J. Browne, Esq...... Plan of a National Bank, by W. S. Wetmore.. Imprisonment for Debt, by Constance Freeman Daniels, Esq.. LAWS RELATIVE TO DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. NEW YORK-Process-Provisions-Property Exempt from Execution-Jail Limits -False Pretences-Deeds-Wills-Statute of Limitations-Foreign Attach- ments-Courts-Bills of Exchange-Insolvency-Mortgages and Assignments -Judgment and Execution, by James H. Lanman, Esq., counsellor at law, 1 NEW JERSEY The Mode of Proceeding in New Jersey for the Recovery of Debts MERCANTILE BIOGRAPHY. Life of Stephen Girard, by James H. Lanman, Esq. 448 549 359 544 546 MERCANTILE LAW DEPARTMENT. REPORTS, DECISIONS, ETC. Action on a Guarantee-Action for Freight..... .81, 82 Illegality of Factors Pledging Notes for Goods sold by them,..... 82 Factors Selling Goods to Refund themselves for the Duties they Paid-Common 83 Liability of Tenants in Case of Fire-Collision-Bottomry.... 266 English Law of Wrecks-Salvage Services-Action for Freight... 267 268 268 Statute Laws Relating to Vessels-Registered Vessels-Of the Transfer of Vessels 376 Decisions in the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts-Trustee Law-Prom- Entz's Exchange and Trade between England and the United States..... Campbell's Centennial Address at Cherry Valley. Coutes Physiology for Schools.... Halleck's Selections from the British Poets.... Heroines of Sacred History-Young Ladies' Companion................ |