This early works was originally published in 1911. PREFACE: The author, Mr. Yang Yin Hang, is a native of China and a graduate in law of the Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. After acquiring a thorough familiarity with English he spent two years as a graduate student in law at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving last June the degree of Masters of Law. While in residence at the University he made himself familiar with our commercial law, and wrote and annotated this translation. The object which he seeks to accomplish is not merely to render accessible to English-speaking students the commercial law of Japan but also to increase our knowledge of and interest in the commercial codes of the civil law...... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900"s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.