Excerpt from American Law of Real Estate Agency: Including Options, Purchases, Sales, Exchanges, Leases, Loans, EtcIn the preface to his Commentary on Agency and Agents (1876) Prof. Wharton says: I have thought it advisable to introduce all reported judi ciel decisions, no matter how cumulative, which have come to my notice in connection with the topic discussed. No doubt in this way my notes may appear overloaded and my table of cases redundant, but it must be recollected that Agency is the creature of usage as established by the courts, tmat usage can only be settled by cumulative rulings, and that, under our American system, there is no State whose adjudication can be safely omitted in such a commentary as the present.It is believed, also, that a need exists for a treatise confined to one branch of the law of Agency, namely, real estate. The general treatises fail to differentiate some of. Its peculiar features, thereby tending to perplex or mislead the lawyer and the jurist. This is the apology, if it be needed, for adding another to the accumulated heap of works on the law.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.