Elements of Law : Being a Comprehensive Summary of American Civil Jurisprudence, for the Use of Students, Men of Business, and General Readers [1835],9781584771883

Elements of Law : Being a Comprehensive Summary of American Civil Jurisprudence, for the Use of Students, Men of Business, and General Readers [1835]

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ISBN13: 9781584771883
ISBN10: 1584771887
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-02-28
Publisher(s): Lawbook Exchange Ltd
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Table of Contents

BOOK I. ORIGIN AND CONSTITUENTS OF AMERICAN LAW
1(8)
BOOK II. ABSOLUTE RIGHTS OF PERSONS
9(320)
BOOK III. RELATIVE RIGHTS OF PERSONS
Husband and Wife
14(7)
Nature of Marriage, and how contracted
14(2)
How dissolved
16(2)
Legal Effects of Marriage
18(3)
Parent and Child
21(3)
Legitimate Children
21(1)
Illegitimate
22(2)
Guardian and Ward
24(2)
Infants
26(2)
Master and Servant
28(4)
Slaves
28(1)
Hired Servants
29(2)
Apprentices
31(1)
Corporations
32(8)
Kinds of Corporations
32(3)
How created
35(1)
Nature, Powers, Duties, & c.
35(2)
Visitation of Corporations
37(1)
Dissolution
38(2)
BOOK IV. RIGHTS OF THINGS PERSONAL
Things Personal
40(2)
Chattels Real
41(1)
Chattels Personal
41(1)
Property in Things Personal
42(4)
Title to Personal Property by Original Acquisition
46(5)
By Occupancy
46(1)
By Accession
47(2)
By Intellectual Labor
49(2)
Title to Personal Property by Transfer by Act of Law
51(9)
By Forfeiture
51(1)
By Judgment
51(1)
By Succession
52(1)
By Insolvency
53(1)
By Marriage
53(2)
By Testament and Administration
55(5)
Executors and Administrators
60(9)
Duties, in Collecting of Goods
61(2)
Duties, in Payment of Debts
63(1)
Duties, in Payment of Legacies
64(2)
Duties, in Distribution
66(2)
General Liabilities
68(1)
Title to Personal Property by Transfer by Act of Party. Gift
69(1)
Contracts
70(16)
Nature and Effect of Contracts
71(3)
Validity and Effect of Contracts
74(6)
Performance and Discharge Contracts
80(5)
Construction and Discharge
85(1)
Sale
86(8)
Effect of Sale, between the Parties
87(3)
Effect of Sale, as to Creditors of Vendor
90(1)
Effect of Sale, as to Creditors of Buyer
91(1)
Assignment for Benefit of Creditors
91(1)
Warranty
92(2)
Bailment
94(10)
Deposit
94(1)
Mandatum or Mandate
95(1)
Commodatum or Loan
95(1)
Pledge
96(3)
Locatum or Hiring
99(5)
Bills and Notes
104(11)
Form of Bills and Notes
106(1)
Negotiation Bills and Notes
107(3)
Demand and Notice
110(2)
Discharge of Bills and Notes
112(1)
Time of Payment and Notes
112(1)
Remedies upon and Notes
112(1)
Collateral Liabilities
113(2)
Partnership
115(6)
Nature and Requisites of Partnership
115(2)
Rights and Duties of Partners
117(2)
Dissolution of Partnership
119(2)
Shipping
121(8)
Title to Vessels
121(1)
Ship-owners
122(1)
Master of a Ship
123(1)
Seamen
124(1)
Affreightment
125(3)
General Average
128(1)
Salvage
129(1)
Maritime Remedies
129(1)
Bottomry, Respondentia, and Insurance
129(13)
Bottomry
129(1)
Respondentia
130(1)
Insurance
130(1)
Nature and Effect of Insurance, and Parties to the Contract
130(2)
What may be insured
132(1)
What will avoid an Insurance
133(3)
Risks covered
136(1)
Commencement and Termination of Risk
137(1)
Total Loss and Abandonment
137(2)
Partial Loss and Average
139(1)
Return of Premium
140(2)
BOOK V. RIGHTS OF THINGS REAL
Incorporeal Hereditaments
142(10)
Commons
143(1)
Aquatic Rights
144(3)
Ways
147(4)
Rents
151(1)
Real Estate Corporeal. Freehold Estates
152(12)
Estates in Fee
Simple
152(1)
Qualified
153(2)
Estates for Life
155(9)
Created by Act of Parties
155(1)
Created by Act of Law
155(1)
Curtesy
155(1)
Dower
156(8)
Estates Less Than Freehold
164(3)
Estates for Years
164(1)
Estates at Will
165(1)
Estates at Sufferance
166(1)
Estates Upon Condition
167(4)
Mortgage
171(7)
What constitutes a Mortgage
171(1)
Effect of Mortgage
172(1)
Rights and Duties of a Mortgagee
173(2)
Rights and Duties of a Mortgagor
175(2)
Discharge of Mortgages and Extinguishment of Equities of Redemption
177(1)
Remainder and Reversion
178(7)
Uses and Trusts
185(5)
Joint Tenancy and Tenancy in Common
190(3)
Title to Real Property
193(2)
Title by Act of Law
195(4)
Descent
195(1)
Escheat
196(1)
Forfeiture
196(1)
Prescription and Custom
197(2)
Title by Deed
199(17)
Nature of Deeds
200(1)
Delivery of Deeds
200(1)
Acknowledgment and Registry of Deeds
201(1)
Component Parts and Registry of Deeds
202(5)
The several Kinds and Registry of Deeds
207(6)
Void and voidable and Registry of Deeds
213(3)
Devise
216(5)
Who may make, and the Form of Devises
217(1)
What may be devised, and to whom
218(1)
Revocation of Devises
218(1)
Republication of Devises
219(1)
Construction of Devises
219(1)
Effect of Devises
220(1)
BOOK VI. PRIVATE WRONGS
Redress by Act of Parties, and by Act of Law
221(5)
By Act of One Party
221(2)
By Arbitration
223(2)
By Act of Law
225(1)
Redress by Action in Courts
226(4)
Injuries to the Absolute Rights of Persons
230(8)
Injuries to the Body
230(2)
Injuries to the Health
232(1)
Injuries to the Reputation
232(4)
Injuries to the Liberty
236(2)
Injuries to the Relative Rights of Persons
238(2)
Injuries to Personal Property in Possession
240(4)
Replevin
240(2)
Trespass
242(2)
Trespass on the Case
242(1)
Trover
243(1)
Injuries to Personal Property in Action
244(6)
Express Contracts
244(1)
Implied Contracts
245(5)
Injuries to Real Property. Ouster
250(10)
Entry
251(3)
Writ of Entry
254(3)
Writ of Right
257(1)
Ejectment
257(1)
Mesne Profits
258(2)
Injuries to Real Estate Without Amotion
260(3)
Trespass
260(1)
Nuisance
261(2)
Judicial Proceedings for Redress of Private Wrongs. Writ, Service, and Entry
263(16)
Nature and Form of Writs
263(1)
Service of Writs
264(2)
Attachment
266(3)
Foreign Attachment
269(5)
Arrest and Bail
274(2)
Return of Writs
276(1)
Entry and Appearance
277(2)
Pleading and Issue
279(10)
Evidence. Nature and General Principles of Evidence
289(11)
Evidence. Instruments, of Evidence
300(18)
Verdict, Judgment, and Execution
318(7)
Verdict
318(3)
Judgment
321(2)
Execution
323(2)
Chancery
325(4)
Index 329

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