Acceptance of bill of exchange,
251-2

Accident insurance, see Insurance,
Accident

Accretion of land, 9-10
Acknowledgment, of chattel mort-
gage, 75; of deeds, 138; of deeds
by married woman, 138
Action, explanation of the term, 4;
compared with petition or bill,

5

Acts of bankruptcy, 49-50
Administration, letters of, 160
Administrator, see Executor
Administrator, public, 162
Admission and initiation of mem-
bers of beneficial associations,
58-9

Adopted child, 10-11; see also

Parent and Child

Adoption of children, legal form

for agreement for, 378-80
Adultery, ground for divorce, 201
Advertisements, offers and re-
wards in, 98

Affidavit for chattel mortgage, 75
Age of a person, fractions of day

omitted in computing, 129
Agency II ff.; classes of agents
and authority of, 11-12; powers
of agents in delegating author-
ity to substitutes, 12-13; prin-
cipal's liability for acts of, 13;
agent cannot receive any per-
sonal profit from a transaction,
13-14; skill and diligence re-
quired of, 14; how agency may
be terminated, 14-15, 16; no-

tice required of termination of
agency, 15; principal bound by
any knowledge acquired by
agent, 16; brokers, 61 ff.
Agent, forwarding, 183-4
Agistment, 61-18; see also Bailor
and bailee

Agreement, partnership, 254
Agreement to purchase land, 18-
19; see also Deed

Agreement, legal forms for: sale
of land, 343; concerning party
wall, 343-4; for building,
344-5; for work and labor, 346;
for lease, 359; to sell shares of
stock, 368-9; for sale of physi-
eian's practice, 375-7; between
merchant and traveling sales-
man, 377-8; for adoption of
children, 378-80

Alien bankrupt, 48
Alienation of affections, right to
sue for, 197

Aliens, naturalization of, 89-90;
rights of, 90
Alluvion, 9

Amusement, proprietor of, not a
common carrier, 171

Amusements and sports, injuries
to public resulting from, liability
for, 297-9

Anarchist immigrants, exclusion
of, 89

Animals, responsibilities of owner
and agistor for, in case of
agistment, 16-18; property
rights to wild, 19-20; property
rights in domestic animals and

Animals-Continued

their offspring, 20-1; liability
of owners of wild animals for
damage done by them, 21; lia-
bility of owners of domestic
animals for damage, 21-4; tres-
pass by domestic, 23-4

Antedating of promissory notes,

checks, etc., 130

Appeal, courts of, see Courts of
Appeal

Appeals from lower courts to

higher, 4-5

Appropriation of water, 24-5
Articles of co-partnership, legal
forms for, 371-5

Articles of incorporation, legal
form for, 384-5
Articles, ships', 294-5

Assault and battery, 314-15
Assessments on stockholders of
corporations, 109-10

Assignment for benefit of creditors
an act of bankruptcy, 49
Assignment, legal forms for: of
mortgage, 358; of lease, 364;
of policy of insurance, 369-
70; of patent right, 370-1
Associations, beneficial, see Bene-
ficial associations
Assumpsit, action of, 220-1

Attorney, liability of, in examina-

tion of titles, 141

Attorney, power of, see Power of
attorney

Auctioneer, authority and duties
of, 26-8

Automobile, operation without a

license does not prevent recov-
ery under an accident insurance
contract, 7; injuries while
cranking or pulling off a tire
are accidents within meaning
of accident policy, 7; has equal
rights with other vehicles on
public ways, 28-9; non-resident
motorists may not be excluded

from a state's public ways nor
placed under greater restric-
tions than residents, 29; license
to operate is merely a privilege,
does not necessarily pass to a
purchaser, and may be revoked,
29; hired cars and obligations
of owner and hirer, 29-31; reg-
ulation of speed of, 31; some
kinds of, may be excluded from
certain streets, 31; rules reg.
ulating travel, 31-4; compe-
teney of driver, 34; require-
ments of the driver for safety,
34-5; unregistered cars, 35;
liability of owner for acts of
chauffeur, 35-6; insurance of,
36-7; indemnity insurance,
37; insurance against robbery,
theft, and pilferage, 37-8;
liability of owner for accidents
while minor is operating, 76;
owner's liability for pay of, or
injury to, chauffeur, 77; liabil-
ity of chauffeur to owner for
wrong conduct, 77; as common
carrier, 171; see also Chauffeur;
Garage keeper

Baggage, 38 ff.; articles included
and excluded by the term, 38-9;
liability of carrier for articles
not properly so classed, 39-40;
carrier may limit amount of,
40; delivery requirements, 40;
liability of the carrier as in-
surer for the loss of, 40-3; lim-
itation of carrier's liability.
41-2; "Passenger's Contract
Ticket," 42; beginning and
ending of carrier's liability,
42-3; liability of innkeeper for
safety of, 203, 204

Bailee, see Bailor and bailee
Bailment, hiring of an automobile
a, 29

Bailor and bailee, 43 ff.; liabil-

Bailor and bailee-Continued
ity of minors, 43; corporation
as bailor or bailee, 43-4; lost
property, 44-5, 48; articles
delivered to another to have
work done on them, 45-6; lim-
itation of liability of bailee by
agreement, 46; bailor need not
be owner, 46; should give notice
to bailee of faults in thing
bailed, 46; degree of care re-
quired of bailee, 46-7; return
of thing bailed at end of period
of bailment, 47; bailee has lien
for service and proper expend-
itures, 47-8

Bankrupt, alien, 48; liability of,
in contract of a continuing na-
ture, 52-3; punishment of, for
fraud, 55

Bankruptcy, revocation of au-
thority of an agent by, 14;
courts of jurisdiction in, 48;
voluntary and involuntary
bankrupts, who may become,
48-9; acts of bankruptcy,
49-50; voluntary petition of,
50; filing of petition against
an insolvent person, 50-1;
bankrupt must file a schedule of
property and list of creditors,
50, 51; meetings of creditors,
51-2; proving and allowance
of claims, 52; claims which may
and may not be allowed, 52-3;
appointment and duties of
trustee, 53-4; property of
bankrupt that is exempt from
the proceedings, 54; petition for
discharge of bankrupt, 55; pun-
ishment of bankrupt for fraud,
55; disclosure of wrong dates
in writings to defeat creditors,
131; failure of a partnership,
255-6

Bankruptcy Act, federal, of 1898,
48, 54, 55, 67

Bankruptcy, referee in, 51, 52, 53
Banks, liable to owner for money
deposited by agent in his own
name, 14; liability as bailee,
46-7; responsibility as to pay-
ment of checks, 78-81; liabil-
ity as to funds deposited by
executor or trustee; 167-8, 310-
II; practice of, in case of notes
made payable at, 267

Banks, national, life of charter

limited to twenty years, 105;
liability of shareholders of, 109;
directors of, 116; criminal lia-
bility of officers for certification
of check not covered by deposit,
126

Banks, savings, managed by trus-
tees, 116

Baseball, injuries to public result-
ing from, liability for, 297
Bathers, liability for injury to,
298

Bees, wild, property rights in,
19-20; owner of domestic, not
liable for attack by, 21
Beneficial associations, 55 ff.;

articles of association of, 55-6;
legal status of, 56; liabilities
and rights of members of, 56–7,
61; ownership of property of,
57; are they charities?, 58; cor-
porate liability of, 58; admission
and initiation of members, 58-
9; sick benefits, 59; power to
expel members, 59-61; powers
regarding property rights, 61;
see also Corporation
Benefits, unearned, liability for,
274 ff.

Bill and note broker, liability of,
62

Bill in equity, 5

Bill of exchange, valid without
date, 130; antedating or post-
dating of, 130; alteration of
date, 130; true date of, how

Bill of exchange-Continued
shown, 131; nature of, and prac-
tice regarding, 251, 252
Bill of lading, 68, 288
Bill of sale for ship, 291
Bills of sale, legal forms for, 347-8
Birds, wild, property rights in,

20

Boarding house, not an inn, 204-5
Bond, of trustee in bankruptcy,

53; to perform a contract,¡legal
form for, 346; for payment of
money, legal form for, 371
Brokerage, 62

Brokers, 61 ff.; kinds of, 62;
bill and note broker, liability
of, 62; insurance, 62; mer-
chandise, 62-3; real estate, 63;
pawnbroker, 63-4; see also
Agency

Brook, see Watercourse
Building, legal form for agree-
ment for, 344-5

Building, when one may be re-
moved on expiration of lease,
216

Building contract, 64-5
Buildings, as affecting light and

air, 273; excavations as affect-
ing stability of, 273-4
Burial lots, 72-3'
Burying-ground, surface water
from, 304

Business trust, 65-7; see also
Testamentary trust

Buyer, responsibility in case of
deceit, 131-3; protection for,
324-5

Capital stock of a corporation,

106; who may subscribe to, 106;
increase of, 107; preferred stock,
107-8; subscription for shares,
108

Captain of a ship, 293-4
Car, unregistered, how owner of,
is regarded by the law, 35

Cat, liability of owner for in-
jury by, 23

Cattle, see Agistment
Cemeteries, regulating of, 72
Cemetery iot, 72-3

Certificate of stock, legal form for,
367-8

Certified check, 81

Charitable institutions, question

as to beneficial associations
being, 58

Charters, of corporation, by what

authority granted, 104; lim-
ited period of, 105

Chattel mortgage, 73 ff.; nature
of, 73; who may make, 73;
description of property, 74;
terms of, 74-5; rights of cred-
itors of holder of, 74-5; ac-
knowledgment and recording of,
75; what may be mortgaged, 75;
after-acquired property and, 75,
76; transfer of title to mort-
gagee in case of default, 76;
legal forms for, 354-7; notice of
sale under, legal form for, 357-
8; see also Mortgage
Chauffeur, of a hired car, re-
sponsibility for negligence of,
30; competency of, 34; lia-
bility of owner of car for acts
of, 35-6; license of, 76-7; re-
covery of pay, or damages for
injury, from employer, 77;
cannot recover for injuries re-
ceived while exceeding speed
limit, 77; liable to employer
for results of wrong conduct, 77;
see also Automobile; Garage
Keeper