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GOODS SOLD AND DELIVERED-(continued.)

Bad quality cannot be pleaded in bar, but may be given in evidence in

reduction of damages, 268

Defence by purchaser, 284, 289. (See Defence-Pleading.)

Form of count, 437

GUARANTY. (See Surety.)

Agreement to guarantee must be in writing, 377

Exempted from stamp, 219, 378

What agreements are within the Statute of Frauds, 377-379
What are not, 379, 380

Distinction between original and collateral undertaking, 379

Where a good consideration moves between the surety and the creditor,
380

Of the sufficiency of the writing within the statute, 381. (See Statute of
Frauds.)

The consideration must appear on the face of the written agreement,
382-384

What is a sufficient consideration, 383
Guaranties are construed strictly, 384, 385

The terms must be strictly complied with, 385
Express condition, ib.
Implied condition, ib.

Retrospective effect, 386

When the guaranty is continuing, 386-388

When non-continuing, 388, 389

How discharged, 389. (See Surety.)

Want of written agreement, how pleaded, 378 note
Replication, ib.

HORSE,

H.

Formalities prescribed by statute in the buying of horses, to bar the real
owner, 174-177

The statute extends to horses wrongfully taken, as well as horses
stolen, 177

When a magistrate has jurisdiction to act, 177, 178

Warranty in the sale of a horse, 356. (See Warranty.)

Positive proof of unsoundness necessary, ib.

Whether sound or unsound is peculiarly a question for the jury, ib.
What is unsoundness, 357

Temporary injury, ib.

Lameness, ib.

Cough, ib.

Crib-biting, 358

Badness of shape, ib.

Roaring, ib.

Chestfoundered, 359

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Liable for necessaries purchased by his wife, 25

Whether parties cohabit or not, 25, 26, 32
Unless the wife elopes with an adulterer, 37

Or unless she voluntarily departs, 36

Or, unless the parties live separate, and the wife has an adequate
allowance, 38

What allowance is sufficient, ib.

Whence derived, 39

Allowance must be permanent, ib.

Liable, if he gives authority, 30

Express or implied, 31, 431

Liable, on subsequent promise to pay, 31

Liable, where he turns his wife out of doors causelessly, 32

Either actually or constructively, 32, 33

Liable, where the parties live separate, and he fails to pay stipulated
allowance, 38

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Cannot contract except for necessaries, 41, 44

The Court will not relieve merely on the ground that the party is of weak
mind, 42

Unless plaintiff is guilty of imposition, 42

ILLEGALITY. (See Immorality-Sunday.)
Must be specially pleaded, 286, 289

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Want of qualification by vendor does not avoid the sale, 86

Sale of goods for smuggling, 87

Mere knowledge on the part of the plaintiff of the illegal intention

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Sales of provisions, &c. to voters, 90. (See Treating Act.)

Selling of game, 91

ILLEGALITY-(continued.)

Selling of small quantities of spirituous liquors, 94. (See Spirituous

liquors.)

Stock-jobbing, 91-94. (See Stock-jobbing.)

IMMORALITY,

Immoral contracts, void, 140

Sale of obscene or libellous prints, ib.

Sale of clothes to a prostitute, 141

Use and occupation of house for purposes of prostitution, ib.

IMPLIED,

Implied agency, 26, 216, 277

Implied ratification, 217

Implied acceptance, 60, 257

Implied condition, 231, 385

Implied appointment of carrier, 262

Implied warranty, 345-349

Implied qualification in warranty, 353

INDORSEMENT. (See Bill of Exchange-Bill of Lading.)

INFANT,

Cannot contract in general, 2, 14

Except for necessaries, 15

Liable for torts, ib.

But not for breach of contract, though sued in tort, ib.

As warranty, ib.

Contracts not void but voidable, 16

May sue, though he cannot be sued, ib.

What are held to be necessaries, 16-18, 433

Must correspond with rank and circumstances, 17

Often a question for the jury, ib.

What are held not to be necessaries, 18-21

Articles above his fortune and station, 18

Goods supplied in unreasonable quantity, or at extravagant cost, 19

Goods supplied in the way of trade, 19, 20

Not liable on account stated, 20

Nor on bill of exchange, ib.

Nor for money lent, ib.

Liable on ratification after coming of age, 21

Ratification must be express, 22

And voluntary, ib.

And before action brought, ib.
And in writing, signed, 23

Not liable after ratification if contract void, 24

Plea of infancy, 285, 287. (See Pleading.)

Replication to, 287. (See Pleading.)

INTEREST,

In action for not accepting, 241

In action for goods sold, 281

Not allowable in general, 282

Jury empowered to allow interest in certain cases, 283, 284

Where bill of exchange was agreed to be given, 282

Where an account has been stated, 283

Interest on deposit, 161

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When laches of purchaser bars action for false representation, 325

When laches of vendor operates to make a bill or note discharge the

original debt, 275

When laches discharge surety, 390

Liability of agent for laches, 395

When bailee liable for neglect, 418, 423

Different degrees of neglect, 418 note

LAMENESS,

Whether lameness is an unsoundness in a horse, 357, 359 note

LICENCE,

Licence to trade with alien enemy legalizes the whole adventure, 145, 146
What avoids the licence, 147

LIEN. (See Agent-Stoppage in Transitu.)

Distinction between particular and general lien, 181

When the vendor is entitled to a lien, 181, 182

Although express agreement as to price, 183

On insolvency, or bankruptcy, of the purchaser, 183, 184, 189
Not where sale is on credit, 184

Where the lien is waived, 184

By parting with the possession, ib.

By delivery of part, when, 185

When not, 186

When the lien is revived, 186, 187

No complete delivery, while the lien continues, 59

Trover cannot be maintained by the purchaser while the lien continues, 317

Lien of factor or other agent, 403, 431

When it attaches, 403, 404

How waived, 404, 405

Transfer of, 405, 406. (See Pledge.)

Lien of carrier or other bailee, 420

LOTTERY TICKET

Not within stock-jobbing Act, 93

Sale of, illegal, 93 note (s)

LUNATIC, 41. (See Idiot.)

M.

MARKET-OVERT. (See Horse.)

What constitutes market-overt, 167, 168

All shops in London, 167

But not for goods alien to the trade of the owner, ib.
Sale in market-overt bars the real owner, 166, 168

Unless the buyer colludes with the seller, 168, 169

Pawning of goods in market-overt does not bar the true owner, 169, 170
Restitution to the owner on conviction of the felon, 171–174

Even after the sale in market-overt, 172
Against whom he may recover, 173

MARRIAGE. (See Feme Covert-Husband.)
MISREPRESENTATION. (See Fraud.)

MISTAKE.

When the purchaser may recover back money paid under mistake, 333
He cannot, in general, rescind the contract on the ground of mistake, 329
When a mistake in the sale-note vitiates the contract, 77

MONEY HAD AND RECEIVED,

When maintainable, 327

Not maintainable in general for mere breach of warranty, 328, and ib.

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Or erroneous representation, without fraud, 329

Distinction between broken contract and rescinded contract, 328
Where maintainable, 329, 330

Original stipulation that contract should be rescinded, 330

Subsequent agreement to the same effect, 330, 331

While contract remains executory, 331, 332

Where the vendor has been guilty of fraud, 332

Unless the purchaser has waived it, 335, 334

Excessive payment through mutual mistake, 333

Action by principal to recover money paid to agent, 399, 400
When infant may maintain the action, 23, 24

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