Commentaries on American Law, Volume 3

Little, Brown, 1867

LECTURE	xlvii

PART V	1

5 By judicial decree	5

6 By inability of the parties to	6

Of the Law of Partnership	19

Of dormant partners	29

Of the rights and duties of partners	37

4 Acts by which one partner may bind the firm	43

5 How far by guaranty	52

Of the dissolution of partnership	60

1 Of dissolution by voluntary	71

3 By insanity	84

Of Negotiable Paper 1 Of the history of bills and notes	86

Of the rights of the holder	96

Of the acceptance	104

Of the indorsement	121

Of the demand and protest	123

Of notice to drawer and indorser 8 Of the measure of damages	162

Of mercantile guaranties	180

Of the principal treatises on bills and notes	181

Of the Title to Merchant Vessels	185

Requisites to a valid title	186

Who is liable as owner	190

Of customhouse documents	197

Of partowners Page 68 70 71 86 86 89	198

141	199

171	213

185	215

Of the Persons employed in the Navigation of Merchant Ships 1 Of the authority and duty of the master	218

2 Ship and freight	220

3 To hypothecate ship cargo and freight 4 Lien in England for wages and expenditures 5 Lien in United States 6 Lien of material	230

Of the bill of lading	232

7 Power to sell cargo 8 To sell the ship	237

Of the rights and duties of seamen	243

1 Shipping articles	264

218	287

243	326

Of the dissolution of the contract	334

2 Of the terms and subject of the policy and	341

3 Of insurable interests	349

Of seamens wages	356

Of wager policies	362

Of warranty	376

6 Of the perils within the policy	383

2 Charitable Relief 3 Punishments 4 Protection	389

Of the usual perils covered by the policy	391

5 Wages 247 249 253 250 251 252 262 263	396

Of the voyage in relation to the policy	402

Of the rights and duties of the insured in cases of loss	413

2 Of the adjustment of partial losses	430

Of the writers on Insurance law	438

Of Maritime Loans	448

LECTURE L Of Insurance of Lives and against Fire	459

1 Of the interest in the policy	468

3 Of the adjustment of the loss	477

385	491

By the colonists	495

Of Incorporeal Hereditaments	509

3 Of the remedy for the disturbance of these	526

Light	566

9 Easements lost by abandonment	575

Eviction	598

Apportionment	607

Of the History of the Law of Tenure	627

Title	Commentaries on American Law, Volume 3 Commentaries on American Law, George Franklin Comstock
Author	James Kent
Editor	George Franklin Comstock
Edition	11
Publisher	Little, Brown, 1867
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	5 May 2009
ISBN	0306712938, 9780306712937

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