A Treatise on the Law of Obligations, or Contracts

In the decades before the Civil War, this classic treatise was required reading for Anglo-American practitioners, scholars and law students.

J. G. Marvin quotes and endorses Sir William Jones's assessment of Pothier's treatises: "For my own part, I am so charmed with them, that if my undissembled fondness for the study of jurisprudence, were never to produce any greater benefit to the public, than barely the introduction of Pothier to the acquaintances of my countrymen, I should think that I had, in some measure, discharged the debt which every man, according to Lord Coke owes to his profession." J.G.

Marvin, Legal Bibliography 578.