A methodical treatise, concerning bills of exchange. [electronic resource] : Wherein is an account of the rise and progress of exchange; the nature and kinds of it explained; the prevailing custom of merchants, illustrated and confirm'd from civil law, the authority of lawyers and writers, ancient and modern, forein statutes, and sentences of courts, acts of Parliament, and decisions of the Lords of Session; and all curious and useful cases, questions and controversies touching bills fairly stated and discuss'd, according to the analogy of the Scots Law. By William Forbes advocat.