A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a Legal, Or of an Equitable Nature, Including Their Relations and Application to Actions and Defenses in General, Whether in Courts of Common Law, Or Courts of Equity; and Equally Adapted to Courts Governed by Codes, Volume 5

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W. Gould & Son, 1878
 

Contents

PARENT AND CHILDContinued PAGE
53
CHAPTER CV
82
PARTNERSHIPS
105
What acts bind the firm
126
PARTNERSHIPS Continued PAGE
146
CHAPTER CVII
156
CHAPTER CVIII
167
CHAPTER CIX
185
Of the rights and liabilities of the principal
193
PRINCIPAL AND SURETY Continued PAGE Section 3 In reference to third persons
194
Of the rights and liabilities of the surety
195
Liability to third persons
196
Of the rights and liabilities of the surety
197
Liabilities and rights as to third persons
198
Perfecting right of action
199
Exhausting remedy against the principal
200
Parties in suits against sureties
201
Defense to suit against surety
202
What is not a defense
203
Suretys rights of reimbursement from principal
204
Amount of recovery
205
Limits of recovery
206
Right to retain funds of the principal
208
Insolvency of principal
209
Sureties rights to priority
210
Part payment by surety
211
Defense to sureties action
212
Subrogation of surety to the rights of creditor
213
When not subrogated
215
Effect of subrogation
216
Assigning creditors securities
217
Of the rights of cosureties
218
Rights to contribution
220
Amount recoverable
221
When not recoverable
222
How obtained
224
Defenses to action
225
Of the discharge of sureties
226
What is not a discharge
227
Payment of creditors demand
229
Discharge of the principal
230
Changing the contract or obligation
231
Taking a new security
232
Impairing the sureties remedy
233
Refusal of creditor to sue principal on notice or de mand
234
When a refusal to sue is no discharge
236
Mere delay no discharge
237
CHAPTER CX
248
CHAPTER CXI
258
CHAPTER CXII
272
RAILROADS Continued PAGE Section 3 Subscriptions to stock
274
Powers as to property
278
Power to make contracts
279
May sue or be sued
281
Dissolution or forfeiture
282
Acquiring lands for roads etc
284
Right of eminent domain
286
Title or interest acquired
288
Taking for public use
289
Taking highways
290
Bridging streams
291
Obstructing streams
292
Locating road
293
Changing location
294
Compensation
295
Interest acquired in land
300
Mode of construction
301
Liable for defects and injuries
302
Contracts for construction
303
Fencing line of road
305
Cattle guards
306
Liabilities in regard to officers agents and servants
308
Officers
309
Agents
310
Conductor
311
Superintendent
313
Employees and laborers
314
Rights duties and liabilities in management of road
315
Right to tolls
316
Delivery of goods
318
Delay in transportation or delivery
319
Injury to goods
320
Stoppage in transit
321
Injuries to passengers
322
Delay of trains
323
Ejection of passengers
324
Using tracks of another road
325
Regulations notice etc
326
Injuries to adjoining property
328
Injuries in crossing track
329
Injuries to stray animals
331
Connected or associated railroads
332
Duty to keep the road safe
334
Carriage of goods
335
Of horse and street railroads
337
Rules and regulations
340
Injuries to other persons
343
Contributory negligence
345
Remedies
346
Injunction
348
Specific performance
350
Receivers
351
CHAPTER CXIII
353
In what cases and over what property a receiver will be appointed
355
Corporations and associations
359
Partnership
360
Mortgages
362
Executors and trustees
364
Infants
367
Tenants in common
369
Construction of will
370
RECEIVERS Continued PAGE
371
What title he takes
388
CHAPTER CXIV
395
CHAPTER CXV
419
REDEMPTION OF REAL ESTATE Continued PAGE Section 5 Who defendant
431
Assignee of mortgage
432
Terms of redemption
433
Judgment
435
CHAPTER CXVI
437
In what cases decreed
439
For error or mistake
443
For fraud
445
For error of scrivener
447
Sealed instruments
448
Unsealed instruments
449
Who may demand relief
451
In what cases denied
452
Decree rendered
453
CHAPTER CXVII
454
Jurisdiction
458
When it does not lie
463
What title or possession will support the action
471
What title or possession is not sufficient
475
What property may be replevined
477
What property may not be replevined
478
When demand is necessary
480
Insufficient pleas
493
General issue
494
Non detinet
495
REPLEVINContinued PAGE Section 22 Avowry
496
Plea of property
497
Replication
498
Damages for detention
499
Judgment of return to defendant
500
Of the verdict or finding
501
What judgments are proper
502
Effect of verdict and judgment
503
Execution
504
When the action does not lie
505
Amount of recovery
506
CHAPTER CXVIII
507
In what cases decreed
510
For error or mistake
513
For fraud
514
For error of scrivener
519
Unsealed instruments
521
Against whom decreed
523
Decree rendered 552
525
CHAPTER CXIX
527
Who may sell
528
Must be a thing to be sold
530
The price to be paid
532
Mutual assent of the parties
533
What dealings amount to a sale
536
What dealings do not amount to a sale
538
Contract of sale in writing
539
Executed and executory contracts
541
Transfer of specific chattels
542
Transfer of chattels not specific
543
SALES Continued PAGE Section 13 Subsequent appropriation
544
Sellers right of sale
546
Conditional sales
547
Sale or return or on trial
551
Sale by sample
553
Warranty in express terms
554
Implied warranty of title
560
Implied warranty of quality
561
Caveat emptor
564
What is a breach of warranty
566
Delivery of the property
567
Time of delivery
568
Place of delivery
570
Quantity delivered
571
How delivered in general
572
Delivery to third persons
573
Constructive delivery
574
Symbolic delivery illustrations of
575
By deed or bill of sale
577
By transfer of bill of lading
578
Buyers duty to accept
579
Buyers duty to pay
580
Mode of payment
581
Delivery without payment
584
At which time title passes
586
Of the statute of frauds
589
What contracts are within the statute
590
What are goods wares and merchandise
591
Of the value of ten pounds etc
596
What is a sufficient acceptance
598
Earnest and part payment
601
Section What is a sufficient memorandum
603
What is not a sufficient memorandum
605
Signature by the party
606
Signature by agent
607
Remedies of parties
608
Action where title has passed
610
Sellers remedies against the goods
611
Resale
613
Lien
620
Action by buyer against seller when contract is ex ecutory
622
SALES Continued PAGE Section 9 Action when title has passed
624
Action after receiving goods
625
Rescission by seller
630
Rescission by buyer
632
Mutual rescission
633
Illegality at common law
634
Illegality by statute
635
Rights of bona fide purchasers
637
Defense of fraud in action by seller
638
Defense of fraud in action by buyer
639
CHAPTER CXX
641
In what cases a proper remedy 642
642
On judgments between the parties
643
Against heirs devisees etc
645
Reviving decree in chancery
646
Recognizances or statutes
647
Within what time
648
Who to be plaintiff
649
Form and complaint etc
650
Defenses
651
Plea or answer
652
Judgment
653
Costs
654
CHAPTER CXXI
655
Founded on the loss of service
656
Who may maintain the action
657
Action by the father
658
Action by the mother
659
Action by stepfather
660
CHAPTER CXXII
672
SHIPPING Continued PAGE Section 21 Liabilities of owners generally
685
Bottomry and respondentia
686
Bonds by the owner
687
Duty and obligation
688
Bond for supplies or repairs
689
Hypothecation of freight
690
Respondentia bonds
691
Validity of bonds
692
Use of the ship by the owner
693
Delivery to the vessel
694
Liability for freight
696
Delivery of goods by the vessel
697
Forwarding in other vessels
698
Suing for nondelivery or injury to goods
699
General liabilities of owner
700
Of charterparties
701
Of general average
702
Loss by perils of sea
703
Sale by master
704
Adjustment of general average
705
Cargo to contribute
706
Loss of freight or profit
707
Effect of adjustment 1708
708
Stoppage in transitu
709
Of the seamen
721
CHAPTER CXXIII
727
SLANDER Continued PAGE
728
Slander of title
761
What contracts may be enforced
775
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE Continued PAGE
779
Effect of delay
810
SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE Continued PAGE
819
Decree
828

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Page 565 - Thirdly, where a known described and defined article is ordered of a manufacturer, although it is stated to be required by the purchaser for a particular purpose, still if the known, described, and defined thing be actually supplied, there is no warranty that it shall answer the particular purpose intended by the buyer.
Page 589 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 616 - Such notice may be given either to the person in actual possession of the goods or to his principal. In the latter case the notice, to be effectual, must be given at such time and under such circumstances that the principal, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, may communicate it to his servant or agent in time to prevent a delivery to the buyer.
Page 632 - Where a party desires to rescind upon the ground of mistake or fraud he must, upon the discovery of the facts, at once announce his purpose, and adhere to It. If he be silent, and continue to treat the property as his own. he will be held to have waived the objection, and will be conclusively bound by the contract, as If the mistake or fraud had not occurred. He Is not permitted to play fast and loose. Delay and vacillation are fatal to the right which had before subsisted.
Page 635 - Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute.
Page 105 - A contract of two or more competent persons, to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions.
Page 589 - ... the buyer shall accept part of the goods or choses in action so contracted to be sold or sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract or sale be signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf.
Page 590 - ... be actually made, procured, or provided, or fit or ready for delivery, or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery...
Page 712 - Produce boats, fishing boats, rafts, or other water craft navigating by hand power or by the current of the river, or anchored or moored in or near the channel or fairway and not in any port, and not otherwise provided for in these rules, shall sound a fog horn, or equivalent signal at intervals of not more than one minute.
Page 231 - It is not sufficient that he may sustain no injury by a change in the contract, or that it may even be for his benefit. He has a right to stand upon the very terms of his contract; and if he does not assent to any variation of it, and a variation is made, it is fatal.

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