essential to the creation of a debt, or the efficacy of an acknowledgment, the rights secured to married women in the property of their husbands, and the exemption of her estate from liability for his debts, the statutes regulating the rights and liabilities of partners, agents, and corporators, the rates of interest and the damages upon protested bills of exchange, are considered in the first part of each chapter. The remedies to recover debts, embracing the modes of obtaining and enforcing judgments, the cases in which a debtor may be arrested, upon either mesne or final process, or in which his estate may be attached, and the proceedings thereon, the lien of judgments, the various species of execution, and the property liable to be taken upon each, the remedies against sheriffs and attorneys for failing to pay over money when collected, the organization of courts, the laws concerning the administration of the estates of insolvent and deceased persons, occupy the remaining portion. The compiler has drawn his materials from the statutes and reports of the several States, and from information furnished to him by gentlemen residing in different sections of the country. He would take this opportunity of expressing his acknowledgments to Mr. Newton Edwards of Boston, for most of the matter relating to the New England States, to Mr. George Benagh of Lynchburg, Virginia, Mr. Richard W. Walker of Florence, Alabama, and Mr. Thomas B. Holcombe of Madison, Indiana, for contributions on the laws of their respective States. The extent of the field embraced, and the absence of any complete collection of the statute law of the States, render some inaccuracies unavoidable. The compiler hopes and believes, that they will be found to be few and unimportant. JAMES P. HOLCOMBE CINCINNATI, Aug. 1st, 1848. CONTENTS. 7. Effect of Marriage on the Title to the Wife's Property. 8. Limitation of Personal Actions and Saving Clauses. 48 7. Effect of Marriage upon the Rights of Property. 8. Limitation of Personal Actions. 5. Principals, Factors and Agents. 6. Limited Partnerships, and Liability of Corporate Institutions. 8. Effect of Marriage upon the Title to the Wife's Property. 9. Limitation of Personal Actions, and Saving Clauses. 8. Effect of Marriage upon the Title to the Wife's Property. 9. Limitation of Personal Actions. 116 7. Limitation of Personal Actions. 8. Effect of Marriage upon Rights of Property. 4. Principals, Factors and Agents. 5. Effects of Marriage upon Rights of Property. |