EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER,

AND

United States Form Book:

BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE IN ALL MATTERS OF LAW AND
BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS,

FOR EVERY STATE IN THE UNION.

CONTAINING LEGAL FORMS OF

Deeds, Mortgages, Leases, Affidavits, Depositions, Bonds, Orders, Contracts, Powers of
Attorney, Certificates of Citizenship, Agreements, Assignments, Awards, Declara-
tions, States of Demand, Demands, Letters of Credit, Arbitration Bonds, Part-
nership Articles, Releases, Administrators' and Executors' Deeds and In-
structions, Orders, Wills, Codicils, Apprenticeship Indentures, Sub-
missions, Land Jointures, Tenants' and Landlords' Agreements,
Receipts, Pensions, Public Lands, Land Warrants, Composi-
tion with Creditors, Oaths, Satisfaction of Mortgages,
Pre-emption Laws, Patent Laws, giving full in-
structions to Inventors.

WITH FULL AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROCEEDING,
WITHOUT LEGAL ASSISTANCE, IN SUITS AND BUSI-
NESS TRANSACTIONS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

ALSO, CONTAINING LIST OF

Property Exempt from Execution, Lien Law, Law of Limitation,
Law of Contracts, Usury Laws, Guide for Proceedings in
Cases of Divorce, Custom-House Entries and Forms,
Law of Partnerships, Liabilities of Common
Carriers, Peddlers' Licenses to Sell Goods

in the various States.

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,

A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF BOOK-KEEPING.

Interest Tables, Gold and Silber Coin Tables,

SEALS OF EVERY STATE IN THE UNION,

&c., &c., &c.

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1859.

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JOHN G. WELLS,

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and 22 Frankfort st., New York.

HALLEN

INTRODUCTORY.

This work has been prepared by an association of Lawyers of well known standing and abili 'y-and no pains or expense spared to make the work, every way especially adapted to the wants of every business man in every State in the Union.

The utility of a volume of this character is too obvious to need comZ mendation. The design in its preparation has been to offer the professional man, the farmer, the mechanic, and the business man, a com ́prehensive and reliable work, which will enable him to draw up any instrument in writing that may be required in the course of business, in a legal form; to furnish him with all such legal information as is usually called for in the various avocations of life: and to make a plain, common sense work, that every body can understand, and which will enable any man or woman to be his or her own lawyer. To make such a work is no small task; but patience and industry are equal to every enterprise, no matter how difficult, and the result of our labor is in the present volume.

The City Wholesale Merchant,

Whose customers are scattered throughout the country, cannot safe ly give them credit unless he is familiar with the laws of the variou States in which they reside, for

THE COLLECTION OF DEBTS, THE LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, THE LAW OF FRAUDS, THE KIND OF PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM ATTACHMENT, RATES OF INTEREST,

And the liberty granted by each State for dishonest men to be tray the confidence of their creditors, all of which information is given in the present work.

The City Retailer,

Whose customers are at home, cannot safely give them credit with out being "posted up" on the legal details concerning false representa tions on the part of buyers, which, together with the law forms of

COPARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS AND DISSOLUTIONS, ASSIGNMENTS OF GOODS TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS, POLICIES OF INSURANCE, POWER AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL THE SUCCESSIVE LEGAL STEPS IN CASE

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