U. USURY. See chapter on INTEREST AND USURY. V. VAGABOND, or VAGRANT. One who wanders about idly, and with no home, and begs, and will not work. VERDICT. The unanimous decision made by a jury and announced to the court. VOUCHER. The written evidences of the truth of entries or charges. WAIVER. W. The abandonment of a right, or a refusal to accept it. WARD. See chapter on GUARDIAN And Ward. WARRANTY. See chapter on SALES. WAY. A right of way is the privilege which some person, or a certain description of persons, have of going over another man's land. WILL. See chapter on WILLS. WITNESS. One who testifies in court under oath or affirmation to what he knows. Also one who signs his name to an instrument, in evidence that it was executed in his presence; he is then called an attesting or subscribing witness. WRECK. Commonly used as meaning a vessel that is cast away. In maritime law, it means the vessel or goods cast away on land by the sea, or found at low water, between high and low water mark. WRIT. A written precept issued by a competent court in the name of the State, commanding the person or officer to whom it is addressed to do what is required therein. It is usually attested by a judge, and countersigned by the clerk of his court. INDEX. A. ACADEMY, military, 80. naval, 80. ACCEPTANCE, rights and duties of the acceptor, 507. (See NOTES OF HAND AND BILLS OF EXCHANGE.) ACKNOWLEDGMENT, how it may be made, 276. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY, may be in six ways: by inheritance; AGENCY, the law of, 512-525. the acts of an agent are the acts in law of the principal, 512. a principal is responsible for the acts of his agent, when he has how a general agent differs from a special agent, 513. how authority may be given to an agent, 514. if given under seal, it authorizes the agent to make a deed for the when given by a written instrument, this is commonly called a power authority may be given orally, 514. one employed by another to act for him in transacting a business, effects of this rule shown, 514. how far the principal is answerable for the fraud of the agent, 514. how an agency, or the act of an agent, may be confirmed by adop- all mercantile agency is governed by mercantile usage, 515. the distinction between factors and brokers, 515. a cashier or other official person has all the authority necessary or AGENCY- Continued. the extent and duration of an agent's authority, 516. an authority to sell implies an authority to sell on credit only where the same rule prevails as to authority to sell with warranty, 517. if an agent make a false statement, believing it to be true, and the the death of the principal operates a revocation of authority, 517. revocation generally is always in the power of the principal, 517. marriage of a woman revokes a power given by her when single, a bank exercising due care in the choice of a notary or other agent the authority must be conformed to with strict accuracy in all mat- liability of an agent, how it may be caused, 519. an agent makes himself liable by exceeding his authority or depart- a party with whom an agent deals cannot hold him personally, if he where an agent intrusted with goods sells the same without author- an undisclosed principal may show that the nominal party was his so an undisclosed principal, when discovered, may be sued on the how a principal is affected by certain acts of his agent, 520. a principal is liable, although personally innocent, if his agent makes a principal can take no benefit from his agent's fraud, 520. a principal is not responsible for the criminal acts of his agents, mutual rights and duties of principal and agent, 521. an agent who departs from his instructions is liable to his principal AGENCY - Continued. usage has great influence in determining the effect of his instructions, no attorney or agent can appoint a sub-attorney or sub-agent, unless an agent is bound to the utmost good faith, 522. for a breach of duty an agent is responsible for the whole injury if an agent embezzles his employer's property, the employer may if the property of the principal be mixed indistinguishably with the an agent or trustee, to sell property, cannot buy it himself; nor, if agents must keep an exact account of their doings, 523. what interest will be allowed on the balances due from an agent or the law as to the revocation of agency, by principal or agent, 523 factors and brokers, law of, 523. effect of a guaranty by a commission-merchant, 523. how far a factor who is intrusted with goods may pledge them, 524. when a factor or broker can claim their commissions, 525. the distinction between a foreign and a domestic factor, and the law as forms of power of attorney and proxies, 526–531. ALABAMA, boundaries, extent, constitution, history, and condition. the right of suffrage by the constitution of, 191. abstract of the statute law of husband and wife, and of homestead, 212. provided for by the constitution, 96. how made, 97. when made hitherto, 98. APPRENTICES, law concerning, 207–209. duties of an apprentice, and of a master, 207. one who seduces an apprentice from the service of his master is forms of indenture of apprenticeship, 209. |