Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, and Judgments. Second Edition. Revised, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged (1841)

Reprint of the second edition and last edition written by Joseph Story. First published in 1834, this was the first systematic work on the subject. Collected from all available sources, it was both a scholarly treatise and a useful handbook for practitioners. A standard work in North America during the nineteenth century, it was one of the first American treatises recognized as an authority in Great Britain. xxxiv, 927 pp.