in interest decides, and all must contribute to any expense voted.

What toll is allowed millers?

Not exceeding one sixteenth.

CHAPTER CL.

OF LIENS ON BUILDINGS AND LAND.

Who can claim a lien on buildings and land for labor? Any person who performs or furnishes labor, with the owner's consent.

Who for material?

Any one furnishing them, who has notified the owner in writing, if he is not the purchaser, that he intends to claim it.

How can the owner prevent such lien?

By giving notice to the person who would acquire it, provided it is not acquired under a contract with him.

How can such lien be dissolved?

By giving a bond like that given to dissolve an attachment, which must be filed with the town clerk.

What steps must be taken to preserve and enforce the lien ? The person claiming it must file with the town clerk a just and true sworn account of the amount due him and a description of the property, within thirty days, and .bring suit within ninety days after ceasing to labor or furnish materials.

Is such account invalidated by an unintentional inaccuracy? It is not.

Who may join in the suit?

Any number who worked for the same person.

Who may appear in the suit?

Any creditor having a lien on the same property.

How is the trial conducted?

The court decide between them in a summary way, with a jury, if asked for.

If any lien is established, what is done?

The property is sold and the proceeds divided among the creditors.

What appeal is allowed?

To the supreme court.

What claim do persons employed in constructing a railroad have on the owners?

A claim analogous to this lien, and on which notices and certificates must be filed in the same way.

CHAPTER CLI.

OF MORTGAGES, PLEDGES, AND LIENS ON CHATTELS.

Where and when must chattel mortgages be recorded?

With the town clerk of the town where the mortgagor lives and where he transacts his business. If he lives out of the State, where the goods are.

If not so recorded, is the mortgage valid?
Not unless possession is taken.

How is it foreclosed?

By a written notice of intention to foreclose served on the mortgagor and recorded with an affidavit of service.

How long can it be redeemed after such service?

For sixty days.

How can a pledgee sell the goods pledged?

By notice of an intention to sell, served and recorded ike the above.

How soon can he sell?

If the property is not redeemed in sixty days.
What lien is given on vessels?

For labor and materials.

How is it enforced?

Like a lien on land, except that the account must be filed within four days after the vessel leaves the port. How can a person who holds a lien of any other sort enforce it?

If the debt is not paid in sixty days after demand, he can apply to a justice of the peace for an order to sell What may the justice do?

After notice and hearing, he may order a sale.

What lien do boarding-house keepers have?

On baggage and effects brought to their house by boarders or guests, except mariners.

CHAPTER CLII.

OF RECOGNIZANCES FOR DEBT.

How may a debtor enter into a recognizance for a debt? By coming before the clerk of the superior court, or before a justice of the peace, for that purpose.

What is its effect?

To subject his person, goods, and estate to be taken on execution.

When can execution be issued?

As soon as there is a default of payment.

What is the remedy for the wrongful suing out or service of such execution?

A writ of audita querela.

CHAPTER CLIII.

OF SEIZING AND LIBELLING FORFEITED GOODS.

When goods are forfeited for any offence, who may seize them? Any person entitled to recover them, or any officer, or constable.

What shall he then do?

File a libel, setting out the cause of seizure; and asking a decree of forfeiture.

What notice is given?

To all persons by advertisement.

If a claimant appears, how is his right tried?

Like a civil action.

When are the goods delivered to the claimant ?

On his giving bond to restore them, or pay their value if forfeited.

What rights has he?

To a trial by jury and an appeal.

When are the goods sold, pending the proceedings?

When they are perishable, or for any other good

reason.

TITLE V.

OF THE LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.

CHAPTER CLIV.

OF THE LIMITATION OF REAL ACTIONS AND RIGHTS OF

ENTRY.

How soon after the right accrues must a real action be brought or an entry made?

Within twenty years; but occupation of land, within

the limits of a railroad, may be terminated without regard to the lapse of time.

When does the right accrue?

When a person first becomes entitled to the possession, or if once in possession, when he was expelled.

What are the exceptions?

Where the person entitled is within the age of twentyone, or disabled by marriage, insane, imprisoned, or absent from the United States, he has ten years after the disability is removed.

Is there any allowance for a second disability?

No.

What possession is required to stop the running of the statute? Open peaceable possession for a year, or an entry followed by a suit within one year.

CHAPTER CLV.

OF THE LIMITATION OF PERSONAL ACTIONS.

What actions must be begun within six years after the cause of action accrues?

Actions on contracts not under seal, for rent, except on sealed leases, replevin, and other actions for taking or injuring chattels, and for tort, except as otherwise provided.

What within four years?

Actions against sheriffs for the misconduct or negligence of their deputies.

What within two years?

Actions for assault and battery, slander and libel, and against administrators, guardians, sheriffs, and assignees in insolvency for taking personal property.