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Title: Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman

Author: Albert Sidney Bolles

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Language: English

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BY ALBERT SIDNEY BOLLES,
PH.D., LL.D.

THE MODERN LAW OF BANKING
BANKS AND THEIR DEPOSITORS
BANK OFFICERS
BANK COLLECTIONS
THE NATIONAL BANK ACT AND ITS JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION

Putnam's Handy Law Book
for the Layman

Putnam's
Handy Law Book
for the Layman

By

Albert Sidney Bolles, Ph.D., LL.D.

Formerly Professor of Commercial Law and Banking in the
University of Pennsylvania, also Lecturer on the
Same Subjects in Haverford College

G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press

Copyright, 1921
by
Albert Sidney Bolles

Published September, 1921
Reprinted December, 1921
" March, July, 1922
" April, 1923

[Illustration]

Made in the United States of America

FOREWORD

What useful purpose can this book serve? Most of the laws under which
we live are kept, not from knowing them, but because the good sense of
individuals leads them along leg