It is now a matter of course that the buyer stands in
the shoes of the seller, or, in the language of an old law-book,
/3/ that "the assign is in a manner quasi successor to his
assignor." Whatever peculiarities of our law rest on that
assumption may now be understood.
FOOTNOTES
3/1 E.g. Ine, c. 74; Alfred, c. 42; Ethelred, IV. 4, Section 1.
3/2 Bract., fol. 144, 145; Fleta, I. c. 40, 41; Co. Lit. 126b;
Hawkins, P.C., Bk. 2, ch. 23, Section 15.
3/3 Lib. I. c. 2, ad fin.
3 /4 Bract., fol. 144a, "assulto praemeditato."
4/1 Fol. 155; cf. 103b.
4/2 Y.B. 6 Ed. IV. 7, pl. 18.
4/3 Ibid., and 21 H. VII. 27, pl. 5.
4/4 D. 47. 9. 9.
7/1 xxi. 28.
7/2 [theta], ix. Jowett's Tr., Bk. IX. p. 437; Bohn's Tr., pp.
378, 379.
7/3 [theta], xv., Jowett, 449; Bohn, 397.
8/1 [iota alpha], xiv., Jowett, 509; Bohn, 495.
8/2 [theta], xii., Jowett, 443, 444; Bohn, 388.
8/3 [Greek words]. 244, 245.
8/4 l. 28 (11).
8/5 Solon.
8/6 "Si quadrupes pauperiem fecisse dicetur actio ex lege
duodecim tabularum descendit; quae lex voluit, aut dari [id] quod
nocuit, id ist, id animal, quod noxiam commisit; aut estimationem
noxiae offerre." D. 9. 1. 1, pr.; Just. Inst. 4. 9; XII Tab.,
VIII. 6.
8/7 Gaii Inst.
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