A practical treatise on bills of exchange, checks on bankers, promissory notes, bankers' cash notes, and bank notes. / By Joseph Chitty ... 8th American from the 8th London ed., newly modelled, and greatly enlarged and improved; and with references to the law of Scotland, France, and America; and new chapters on agents, partners, consideration, stamps, requisites, loss, times of presentment, non-payment, protest and notice, evidence, bankruptcy, forgery, larceny, embezzlement, and false pretences; and an appendix of precedents. Containing the American notes of former editions, by Judge Story, E.D. Ingraham, and Thos. Huntington ... to which are now added, the cases decided in the courts of the United States, and of the several states, to the present time, and the decisions of all the English courts in 1833 and 1834. By Pierre Ogilvie Beebee ..