The numbers refer to pages.
Acceptance of Proposition. 25; implied, 25;
presentment for, 82; why and when neces-
sary, 82; effect of, 82; where and how
should be made, 83; qualified, 84; what
admits, 85; forms of, 82 and 85; of a draft,
63.
Accident Insurance, 207.
Accord and Satisfaction, 53.
Acknowledgment, 220; form of, 221.
Action, things in, 13.
Agency, definition, 155; when implied, 157;
dissolution of, 165.
Agents, classes of, 155; who may be an
agent, 155; how appointed, 156; notice to,
158; duties of to principal, 158; duties of
to third persons, 160; right to protection,
162; torts of, 163.
Agistors, 147.
Alien enemies, 23.
Alterations, 52 and 111.
Assignment, 52; form of, 52.
Attachment, 37.
Bailee, duties of in deposit, 137; duties of
in commission, 138; liabilities of in de-
posit, 138; liabilities of in commission,
138; liabilities of in gratuitous loans, 140.
Bailment, definition, 135; kinds of, 135;
parties to, 135; degrees of care in, 135.
Banking, 70; bank-book, 70.
Bankruptcy, 52,
Bill of Lading, 91; definition, 91; how used,
92; how endorsed, 92.
Bill of Sale, what is, 121; form of, 121.
Borrowers, liabilities of, 140.
By-Law, 186, 188.
Capital stock, 185.
Care, degrees of required in case of bail-
ments, 135, 144, 147.
Carriers, private, 149; common, 149; duties
and obligations of, 150; liability of, 150;
when liability ends, 151; delivery, 151; lien,
151; of passengers, 152.
Caveat Emptor, 131.
Certificate of Deposit, 72; form of, 72; of
protest, 89; cashier's check, 73.
Charter, 186.
Chattels, transfer of specific, 123; mortgage
of, 128; form of mortgage of, 129.
Checks, definition, 69; parties, 69; form of,
70; certified, 71; form of certified, 71;
cashiers, 73.
Chose in action; see things in action.
Chose in possession; see things in pos-
session.
Collateral Note, 69; form of, 68.
Commercial Law, 11.
Commission, definition of, 137; compens.-
tion for, 138.
Commission Merchants, 148.
Common Law, origin, 10.
Conditional Sale, 122.
Conditions of transfer of negotiable paper,
73.
Consideration, sufficient, 27; need not be
expressed in negotiable paper, 76: for con-
tract of guaranty, 107; definition, 27; val-
uable, 27; gratuitous, 28; impossible, 28;
moral, 29; executed, 29; lack of, 30; failure
of, 30; forbidden by statute, 34.
Constitution, 9; difference between state
and national, 9.
Contracts, definition, 16; essentials of, 16;
importance of, 16; divisions of, 17; as to
validity, 17; as to solemnity, 17; as to ex-
pression, 18; as to time, 19; joint, 19;
several, 19.
Corporations, definition, 182; classes, 182;
how created, 184; by-laws, 186; implied
powers of, 187; name of, 190; by what law
governed, 190; dissolution of, 191.
Corporator, what is, 185.
Covenants of warranty deed, 219; against
grantor, 221.
Credit, letters of, 94; form of, 94.
Curtesy, estate by, 215.
Custody, hire of, 147.
Deed, definition, 216; requisites of, 217;
kinds, 218; release of, 221; quit claim, 222;
form of quit claim, 221; mortgage, 223.
Defenses, 38; to negotiable paper, 76.
Delivery, of negotiable instrument, 60; of
personal property, 123; by installments,
125; constructive, 125; without change of
possession, 124; English rule of, 124;
American rule of, 124.
Deposit, definition of, 136; use of the, 137.
Disabilities, legal, 20; mental, 20.
Dissolution, of an agency, 165; of a partner-
ship, 176; of a corporation, 191; Joint
Stock Company.
Diversion of a paper in case of surety, 110.
Dower, estate of, 215.
Drafts, form of, 62; parties to, 62; defini-
tion of, 62; acceptance of, 63; how to
transfer a, 63; foreign, 64.
Drawee, 62; incompetent, 84.
Drawer, of draft, 62.
Employers, liability of, 162; insurance of,
208.
Endorsements, object, 77; where made, 77;
kinds of, 78; who may make, 79; forms of,
80; successive, 80.
Endorser's contract, 80.
Endowment policy, 205.
Estates, kinds, 213; life, 214; for years, 215.
Evidence, 35; important rule of, 50.
Executed, contracts, 19; consideration, 29.
Execution, 36.
Executory, contracts, 19.
Exemptions, 36 and 242.
Fee simple, estate of, 213.
Fee tail, estate of, 214.
Forfeiture, 49.
Fraud, 26 and 33; fraudulent agreement, to
the injury of third persons, 33; statute of,
38; practiced on the surety, 111.
Garnishment, 37.
Gifts, 30.
Grace, days of, 75.
Gratuitous consideration, 28.
Gratuitous loans, definition of, 139; com-
pensation for, 139.
Guarantor, liability of, 106; how discharged,
112; joint, 112.
Guaranty, definition of, 106; not negotiable,
109; consideration for, 107; kinds of, 107.
Guaranty of title, 208.
Hire, 143; of things, 143; of services, 145; of
custody, 147; of carriage, 149.
Holder, transfer of negotiable paper to an
innocent, 74.
Holidays, 87.
Homestead, 221 and 242.
Hotelkeepers, 148; duties, 148; liabilities of,
148; rights of, 149.
Infants, 22; ratification of contracts made
by, 22.
Injunction, 38.
Insolvency, 52.
Insufficient consideration, division of, 28.
Insurable interest, fire, 197; life, 203.
Insurance, what is, 196; fire, 196; in several
companies, 200; life, 202; casualty, 207; ac-
cident, 207; employers' liability, 208; plate
glass, 209; elevator, 210; agents, 197; plans
of life, 205.
Interest, definition of, 114; legal rate of,
114; what law governs, 114; on what al-
lowed, 114; annual, 115; compound, 115;
when negotiable paper bears, 114; table
of rates in different states, 116.
International law, 7.
Intoxication, 21.
Joint contracts, 19.
Joint guarantor, death of, 112.
Joint stock company, how formed, 193;
what articles should contain, 194; com-
pared with partnerships and corporations,
194; how may be sued, 194; dissolution, 194.
Joint tenancy, 13 and 14.
Judgment, 36.
Judgment note, 67; form of, 67; benefit of, 68.
Law, definition, 7; kinds, 7; general outline
of, 6; municipal, 7; constitutional, 8; stat-
utory, 10; common, 10; commercial, 11.
Legal disabilities, 20.
Legal steps in trial, 35.
Lender, liabilities of, 140.
Letter, duty of, 143.
Levy, 36.
Life estate, 214.
Limitations, statue of, 42.
Lost property, 132.
Lunatics, 20.
Marriage, in general restraint of, 32.
Married Women, 23.
Maturity of negotiable paper, 75; transfer
before, 74.
Maxims, legal, 56.
Mental Disabilities, 20.
Mistake, 26.
Moral Consideration, 29.
Moral Law, 7.
Mortgage-chattel, 128; form of, 129; differs
from pledge, 142; real estate, 223; form of,
223.
Municipal Law, 7 and 8.
Natural Law, 7.
Negotiability, 57.
Negotiable Instrument-definition of, 57;
elements of, 58; parties to, 58; delivery of,
60; quasi, 91.
Non-acceptance, proceedings for, 85.
Non-payment, proceedings for, 88 and 89.
Notes-form of, 65; definition of, 65; joint
and several, 65; accommodation, 66; form
of demand, 66; form of judgment, 67; judg-
ment, 67; collateral, 69; form of collateral,
68; negotiable in form, 60; negotiable
words in note, 66.
Officers, of corporation, 188.
Option, giving an, 25.
Organization, of corporation, 185.
Parties, definition, 20; who may not be, 20;
to negotiable instruments, 58; to sale of
personal property, 118.
Partners, kinds of, 171; who may be, 171;
general rule as to authority of, 173; rela-
tions to each other, 174; liability of, 175.
Partnership, definition of, 170; how formed,
170; what contract of should contain, 170;
how property held in, 172; duration of,
172; dissolution of, 176; limited, 179.
Payment, by mail, 46; by note, 46, by check,
47; part, 47; to whom made, 47; applica-
cation of, 48; presentment of negotiable
paper for, 86 to 88.
Performance, specific, 38; of contracts, 48;
part, 49; time of, 48.
Plate Glass, insurance of, 209.
Pledge, definition of, 140; what one may, 140.
delivery in, 141; degree of care in, 141;
wrongful, 142; differs from mortgage, 142
Pledgee, when may use property, 141; prop-
erty of in the pledge, 141; remedies of, 142.
Pledgeor, right of transfer, 141.
Policy, fire insurance, 198; life, 204; assign-
ment of, 201, 204; surrender of, 201; en-
dowment, 205.
Possession, things in, 13.
Practical Cases, in negotiable instruments,
98.
Presentment, negotiable paper for pay-
ment, 86; when and how should be made,
86 to 88; negotiable paper for acceptance
82; when and how should be made, 83;
excuses for, 84.
Principal, 106; extending time to, 111; duties
and liabilities to agents and to third per-
sons, 161; liabilities of third persons to,
165.
Property, definition, 12; how held, 13 and
216; kinds, 12; real, 12 and 212; personal,
12 and 13.
Proposition, 24; with condition. 25.
Protest, 88; form of certificate of, 87; what
should contain, 90.
Proxy, right of stockholders to vote by, 189;
form of, 189.
Public justice, contracts for obstructing, 32.
Quasi Negotiable Instruments, 91.
Quit Claim Deed, 222; form of, 222.
Real estate, definition of, 212; conveyances
of, 216.
Receipts, 51; warehouse, 93.
Recording, 221.
Recoupment, 50.
Remainders, 215.
Remedies, definition, 35.
Renunciation, of agency by agent, 166; by
operation of law, 166; by insanity, 167;
when takes effect, 167.
Replevin, 37.
Restraint of Marriage, 32.
Restraint of trade-contracts in general, 31.
Reversions, 216.
Sale, 35; of personal property, 118; blll of,
121; form of bill of, 121; conditional, 122;
that defrauds third persons, 125; on trial,
127; by sample, 128; of goods to arrive, 128.
Seals, 17 and 18.
Securities, parting with, 112.
Services, hire of, 145.
Set-off, 49.
Several contracts, 19.
Severalty, 13.
Skill required in bailment, 138 and 145.
Specialty, 17.
Statute of frauds, 38 and 120.
Statute of limitations, 42.
Statute law, 10.
Steam boilers, insurance of, 209.
Stock, classes of, 186; issue of, 186; form of
certificate of, 186; capital, 185; transfer of,
191.
Stockholders, liabilities of, 190, 194; rights
of, 191.
Stoppage in transit, 92 and 126; form of
notice of, 127.
Subject matter, definition, 31; what may be,
31; what cannot be, 31; of sale of personal
property, 119; not yet in existence, 119.
Subrogation, 110.
Subscriber, who is, 185.
Succession, corporations how have, 187.
Summons, 35.
Sunday, desecration, 33; when last day of
grace falls on, 76.
Surety, liability of, 106; how discharged,
110; fraud practiced on, 111; differs from
co-maker, 113; rights of, 110.
Survivorship, right of, 14.
Tenancy, joint, 13; in common, 13.
Tender, 44.
Things, hire of, 143.
Trade, in general restraint of, 31.
Transfer of negotiable paper for value, 73;
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