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Who wrote early 19th-century treatises on agency law in England and the United States?
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Portrait of Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius), oil on panel by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, 1631; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
The first practical treatises on agency law in the early 19th century were authored by William Paley in England, and by Samuel Livermore and Joseph Story in the United States.1