The Business Guide: An Outline of Business

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Cosimo, Inc., 1 Des 2005 - 548 halaman
How can you spot the marriage-certificate swindle? Should you buy a typewriter, or rent? How does one calculate the weight of coal in a bin or box? How are blasphemy, fornication, profanity, and offenses on the high seas defined by the law?The answers to these questions, and many more, can be found in this handy business encyclopedia, a one-volume quick reference to everything the well-informed man of industry and commerce needed to know if he was to get ahead and make a respectable name for himself in the early 20th century.QUICK TIP: Servants of an American citizen can be included in the citizen's passport!First published in 1886, this tremendously popular book was a standard for decades. Today, this replica of the 18th edition is a wonderful piece of retro Americana.QUICK TIP: If you make teaching business to your wife like a puzzle or a game, she is much more likely to be enthusiastic about home finance!JAMES LAWRENCE NICHOLS (d. 1895) was professor of economics at Northwestern College, and also wrote The Farmers Manual, The Household Guide, and Safe Counsel.

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Halaman 192 - ... defamatory words falsely spoken of a person, which impute to the party unfitness to perform the duties of an office or employment of profit, or the want of integrity in the discharge of the duties of such an office or employment. (4) Defamatory words falsely spoken of a party which prejudice such party in his or her profession or trade. (5) Defamatory words falsely spoken of a person, which, though not in themselves actionable, occasion the party special damage.
Halaman 57 - A check must be presented for payment within a reasonable time after its issue or the drawer will be discharged from liability thereon to the extent of the loss caused by the delay.
Halaman 139 - ... to the said party of the first part in as good condition as when the same were entered upon by the said party of the second part, loss by fire or inevitable accident and ordinary wear excepted.
Halaman 79 - ... to charge any person, upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage, or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Halaman 177 - The applicant shall make oath that he verily believes himself to be the original and first inventor or discoverer of the art, machine, manufacture, composition or improvement for which he solicits a patent; that he does not know and does not believe that the same was ever before known or used, and shall state of what country he is a citizen.
Halaman 166 - On this day of , 19 , before me personally appeared AB (or AB and CD), to me known to be the person (or persons) described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he (or they) executed the same as his (or their) free act and deed.
Halaman 176 - The specification must include a written description of the invention or discovery and of the manner and process of making and using the same, and is required to be in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which the invention or discovery appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same.
Halaman 145 - That the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the covenants and agreements hereinafter mentioned, to be kept and performed by the said party of the second part...
Halaman 144 - ... said party of the second part, or any other person or persons occupying, in or upon the same, to expel, remove and put out, using such force as may be necessary in so doing, and the said premises again to repossess and enjoy as...
Halaman 13 - Whereas, the said party of the first part is justly indebted to the said party of the second part, in the sum of...

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