A practical compendium of the law and usage of mercantile accounts : describing the various rules of law affecting them, the ordinary mode in which they are entered in account books and the various forms of proceeding, and rules of pleading and evidence for their investigation, at common law, in equity bankrupty and insolvency, or by arbitration; with supplement containing the law of joint stock companies' accounts, and the various proceedings for their adjustment, including also the Winding-up acts, 1848-49 /