Banking and Negotiable Instruments: A Manual of Practical Law by Sir Frank Tillyard

The object of this small book is to deal concisely and simply with the practical legal questions which arise in the course of a banker's business. With this end in view, a considerable part of the book has been devoted to the consideration of the various kinds of securities that a customer, wishing to borrow money from his bankers, may present to them. No book on Banking has heretofore dealt with this aspect of the subject. The author, while intending the book primarily for men of business, has sought to make it useful to lawyers, by giving the name of the principal or best authority for the propositions enunciated by him ; starting from such authority, sub- ordinate and analogous cases will readily be found. The author, in several chapters, and particularly in Chapter XVII, has had to discuss questions on which the leading lawyers of the day have disagreed, and if he appears unduly dogmatic, he must plead the view of the client who is said to have preferred a wrong opinion to no
opinion at all.