Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, and Guaranties of Notes, and Checks on Banks and Bankers: With Occasional Illustrations from the Commer

by Joseph Story

Includes discussion Nature and Requisites of Promissory
Notes, Competency and Capacity of Parties to Promissory
Notes, Rights, Duties, and Obligations of Parties, Excuses
for Non-presentment, Notices and other Proceedings on the
Dishonor of Promissory Notes, and Checks on Banks and
Bankers.
Recommended Publications for Legal Research
"C" Rated, Legal History, 1994, Page 124

675 pages, Hardcover

First published December 17, 2010

About the author

American lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. He is most remembered for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and The Amistad case, and especially for his magisterial Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
Story opposed Jacksonian democracy, saying it was "oppression" of property rights by republican governments when popular majorities began (in the 1830s) to restrict and erode the property rights of the minority of rich men. Historians agree that Justice Joseph Story reshaped American law—as much or more than Marshall or anyone else—in a conservative direction that protected property rights.