Mutual fire insurance companies,
175-6
Mutuality in contracts, 96
National bank notes may be re-
fused as payment, 265-6
National banks, see Banks, na-
tional
Naturalization, 89-90
Navigable water, rights of land-
owners along, 238-9
Negligence, in operation of auto-
mobiles, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36,
77; of common carrier, 68, 70,
174; of passenger, 70; of post-
master, 71-2; contributory,
100-2; gross, liability of cor-
poration directors for, 121-2;
in operation of elevators, 151
Negotiable paper, 239 ff.
Newspapers, offers and rewards
in, 98; liability of, for libel, 318
Nickels, limited amount only may
be used in payments, 265
Non-residents, may not be ex-
eluded from public ways of a
state, nor placed under greater
restrictions than residents, 29
Note, promissory, valid without
date, 130; ante-dating or post-
dating of, 130; alteration of
date, 130; true date of, how
shown, 131; legal action for
collection of, in case of default
219-20; form of, 239 ff.;
negotiable and non-negotiable,
240; ante-dated and
dated notes, incomplete fea-
tures and other irregularities,
240, 241-2; how note may be
drawn, 240-1; when payable to
bearer, 241; delivery of, 242-3;
ambiguous language in, 243;
signature by agent, 243-4;
forgery of, 244; various kinds
of indorsement, 244-5; holder
of, 245-6; liability of indorser,
246-7; presentment for pay-
ment, 247-8; date when pay-
able, 248; notice of dishonor,
249-50; alterations in, 250;
position of writing on, 250-1;
as payment of debt, 266; prac-
tice regarding, when made pay-
able at bank, 267; provision of
statute of limitation regarding,
Notice, of termination of agency,
15; of termination of partner-
ship, 15; to creditors of peti-
tion for discharge of a bankrupt,
55; of sale of pawned goods,
63; of corporation meetings,
110-11, 115-16; to corporation
of new stockholder's address,
112; of action for divorce, 143;
of vendor's lien, 235; of dis-
honor of a note, 249-50; of sale
under chattel mortgage, legal
form for, 357-8; to quit, form
for, 365
Nuisance, skating rink as, 297;
music as, 299; private, 319-21
Offer, the, and acceptance in con-
tracts, 96-7; one person can-
not make and accept an offer at
the same time, 98
Offers and rewards, 98
Officer, public, exempt from lia-
bility as common carrier, 71;
justification of use of force by,
Oral agreement to purchase land,
when valid, 18-19
Outlawry of debt, 301-2
Oysters, private ownership of, 20
Paper, negotiable, 239 ff.
Parent and child, 252-3; see also
Adopted child; Husband and
wife
Parents of adopted child, natural
and adopted, 10-11
Partnership, notice of termina-
tion of, 15; difference in lia-
bilities of members of, and
stockholders of a corporation,
106, 108-9; effect of death on,
167; powers of members of,
253; agreement for, 254; in-
corporation of, 254-5; limited
liability partnerships, 255; dis-
solvement of, 255; failure of,
255-6; articles of co-partnership,
legal forms for, 371-5
Party wall, legal form for agree-
ment concerning, 343-4
Passengers, responsibility of com-
pany for car conductor's treat-
ment of, 13; contract for con-
veyance of, may be enforced,
31; in automobiles, 35; bag-
gage of, 38-43; responsibility
of common carrier as to, 69-70;
negligence of, 70; protection of,
in sleeping cars, 70-1
"Passenger's Contract Ticket," 42
Patent, 256 ff.; what may be
patented, 256-8, 259-60; prior
publication, 258; may be issued
to whom, 260, 261, 262; inven-
tion by employee, 260, 261, 262;
reduction of invention to prac-
tice, 260-1; procedure of ob-
taining a patent, 262-4; action
in case of infringement, 264-5
Patent right, legal form for as-
signment of, 370-1
Patents, injunctions against in-
fringers of, 158-9
Patient, requirement of, as to
physician, 270-1
Pawnbroker, 63-4
Payment, medium of, and what
constitutes, 265-8
Payment of money, legal form for
bond for, 371
Payments based on mistakes, 279
Pedestrians, law of the road re
garding, 32
Pennies, limited amount only may
be used in payments, 265
Percolating water, 268-9
Perishable goods, sales of, 283-4
Perpetual charters no longer
granted, and some of older ones
limited, 105
Personal property, chattel mort-
gage on, 73-6
Personal services, contract for,
cannot be enforced, though
damages may be collected, 156
Petition or bill, compared with
action, 5
Petition for discharge of a bank-
rupt, 55
Petitions in bankruptcy, 50-1
Physician and surgeon, 269-71
Physician's practice, legal form
for sale of, 375-7
Pilferage in automobile insurance,
37-8
Pledgors and pledgees of stock-
voting rights of, 114-16; and
dividends, 124
Policy of insurance, legal form for
assignment of, 369-70
Poll deeds, 135
Pollution of water, 328
Ponds, title to bed of, 140
Possession, acquirement of title
to land by, 193
Post-dated check, 79
Post-dating of promissory notes,
checks, etc., 130
Postmaster, liability of, for injury
caused by his negligence, 71-2
Power of attorney, to agent, 12;
legal forms for, 365-7
Precedents, rule of, in courts, I
Preferred creditors, of a bank-
rupt, 49-50, 52, 53
Preferred stock of corporations,
107-8
Prescriptive rights in land, 273-4
Prices in sale of goods, 284
Private carriers, 67-8,
Private premises, liability for in-
jury on, 322-3
Probate courts, see Courts, pre-
bate
Promissory note, see Note, prom-
issory
Property, conveyance or con-
cealment of, to defraud credi-
tors, an act of bankruptcy, 49;
of beneficial associations, own-
ership of, and control over
rights to, 57, 61; personal
chattel mortgage, on 73-6;
church, 84-5
Property, lost, 44-5, 48
Prosecution, malicious, 314
Proxies, at meetings of creditors
of a bankrupt, 52
Public carriers, see Common car-
riers
Public or municipal corporations,
Public ways, right of travel and
transportation on, 28-9
Quasi contracts, see Contracts,
quasi
Quasi corporations, 104-5
Quit-claim deed, 135
Quit claim deeds, legal forms for,
351-2
Quo warranto, action of, 222
Railroad corporation is a private
corporation, 104
Railway, when not a common car-
rier, 171
Railway ticket agent, responsibil-
ity of company for actions of,
Raised checks, 79
Real estate, mortgages on, 232 ff.;
contract for sale of, must be
written, 300
Peal estate broker, 63
Real estate titles, liability of at-
torney in examination of, 141
Receipt for money in payment for
debt, 267; effect of seal on,
267-8
Receiver, petition for appoint-
ment of, not an act of bank-
ruptcy, 49; for corporations,
109, 110
Recording, of chattel mortgage,
75; of deeds, 137-8
Referee in bankruptcy, 51, 52,
Registry of ships, 289
Reinsurance of life policies, 228-9
Release, or quit-claim deed, 135;
by ward of his guardian, legal
form for, 380
Reliction of land, 10
Religious societies, incorporation
of, 81-2; who is responsible for
contracts with, 87-8
Remedies, equitable, 154-9; legal,
for civil offenses, 219-22
Rents, allowable as claim against
bankrupt, 53
Replevin, action of, 221
Reservoirs, 327-8
Revenue Acts of 1916 and 1919,
67
Rewards, 98
Right of way, 271-3
Rights, prescriptive, in land, 271-4
Riparian proprietorship, 24
River, change of course of, effect
on ●wnership of land, 9-10;
title to bed of, 140; see also
Watercourse
Roads, rules relating to, as boun-
daries of land, 141
Robbery, insurance of automobiles
against, 37-8
Roman Catholic Church, removal
of priest in, 84; property vested
usually in bishop, 87
Roof water, requirements regard-
ing, 305
Safety appliances for elevators,
Sailors, rights of, 294-5
Sale, 280 ff.; contract for, 280-1;
capacity to buy and sell, 281;
contracts with minor, 281-2;
Sales Act on enforcement of
contract, 282-3; sale of un-
divided share of goods, 283;
destruction of goods wholly
or in part, 283-4; fixing of
prices, 284; warranties, 285-6;
time of transfer of ownership
and delivery, 287-8, 300; spec-
ulative sales, 288-9; when con-
tract for, must be written, 300
Savings-bank deposits, gift of,
186-9; joint ownership in, 189-
90
Savings banks, see Banks, sav-
ings
School district a quasi-corpora-
tion, 104
Seal, required for written author-
ity for agent to sign deed, 12;
use of, in deeds, 135; use of, by
corporation, 135; on a receipt
for money, effect of, 267-8
Seamen, rights of, 294-5
Seashore, ownership of, in case of
accretion or reliction of land, 10
Seaweed, ownership of that cast
upon the shore, 9
Secret processes or information,
employee has no right to use
or disclose, 153-4
Seller, liability for deceit, 131-3
Separation of husband and wife,
200, 201
Servants, domestic, status under
Workmen's Compensation Acts,
335-6
Sewage, 328
Shareholders, in business trust,
powers and liabilities of, 66-7;
of national banks, liability of,
Sheep, see Agistment
Shellfish, property rights in, 20
Ship, when not a common car-
rier, 171
Shipping, 289 ff.; enrollment or
registry of ships, 289; title to
vessel, 289; ownership of, by
corporations, 289; rights of part
owners, 289-91; liabilities of
purchaser, 291; mortgaging of
a vessel, 291-2; contract for
loan on, 292; requirements as
to master, 293; duties and au-
thority of master, 293-4; ship-
ping articles, 294-5; rights of
seamen, 294-5
Sick benefits, in beneficial asse-
ciations, 59
Signature of check, 78
Silver dollars, limited amount
only may be used in payments,
265
Simple contract, 92
Skaters, rights of, 297-8
Slander and libel, 315-19
Sleeping car companies, reponsi-
bility as to passengers, 70-I
Specialty contract, 92
Speculative sales, 288-9
Speed of automobiles may be
regulated by law, 31
Spendthrift trust, 295-6; see also
Business trust; Executor
Sports and amusements, injuries
to public resulting from, liabil-
ity for, 297-9
Spring in highway, rights of public
and adjoining landowners re-
garding, 191-2
Springs, 327
State, control of wild animals in,
by, 20; may not exclude
non-resident motorists from its
public ways, nor specially re-
strict them, 29; insolvency laws
superseded by federal Bank-
ruptcy Act of 1898, 48
State courts, see Courts, state
Statute law, definition of, I
Statute of Frauds, 300-1
Statutes of limitation, 267, 301-3
Statutes, federal, state courts
must follow federal courts in
interpretation of, 1; nearly all
criminal law founded on, 2
Stock, legatee of, when entitled
to dividends on, 124-5
Stock, preferred, 107-8
Stock: certificate of, legal form
for, 367-8; agreement to sell,
form for, 368-9; transfer of,
form for, 369
Stock certificate, not an essential
to ownership of corporation
stock, 107
Stock dividends, of corporations,
125
Stock insurance companies, 176
Stockholders of a corporation,
who may be, 106; right to
proportionate part of new issue
of stock, 107; liability of, 108-
10; assessments, 109-10; vot-
ing power of, 113-14; sellers
and purchasers of stock, vot-
ing rights of, 114-15; pledgors
and pledgees, 114-16; to whom
dividends are payable, 124-5;
liability of company to, for
wrongs 126-8; right of, to in-
spect books, 128
Stolen deed, 137
Stopping payment of check, 81
Streams, rules relating to, as
boundaries of land, 140; see also
Watercourse
Subagent, see Agency
Subscription for shares of corpora-
tion capital stock, 108
Subscription to build a church,
legal form for, 365
Subsidence of land or water, effect
of, on land ownership, 10
Buicide, ruling as to proof re-
quired of, under accident insur-
ance contract, 9
Suit, use of the term, 4
Sunday contracts, 279
Sunday "joy riding," contract
for, illegal, 31
Supreme court, see Court, supreme
Surface water, questions regard-
ing, 303-6
Surplus, accumulation of, by cor-
porations, 123-4
Taxicab a common carrier, 171
Telegram, unauthorized writing
or sending of, in another's name,
a forgery, 307
Telegraph companies, responsi-
bilities and liabilities of, 306-9
Telegraph wires, tapping of, a
criminal offense, 307
Telephone, use of, in sending tele-
grams, liability of telegraph
company, 309; use of, in trans-
acting legal matters, 309-10
Tenant, contributory negligence
by, 101; see also Lease
Terms, explanation of, 1-5
Testamentary trust, 310-13: see
also Executor; Voting trusts
Theft, in sleeping cars, 70; liabil-
ity of garage keeper for, 185
Ticket agent, responsibility of
railway company for actions of,
13
Tidal waters, ownership of land
on, created by reliction, or
subsidence, of, 10
Titles to real estate, liability of
attorney in examination of, 141
Tort, action in, 221
Torts (or wrongs), liability of
corporation for, 126-8; sub-
ject to both civil and criminal
action, 313; false imprison-
ment, 314; malicious prosecu-
tion, 314; assault and battery,
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