The Pawnbrokers', Factors', and Merchants' Guide to the Law of Loans and Pledges: With the Statutes and a Digest of Cases on Rights and Liabilities, Civil and Criminal, as to Loans and Pledges of Goods, Debentures, Mercantile, and Other Securities

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Crosby Lockwood & Company, 1876 - 322 pages
 

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