Institutes of American Law, Volume 1A compendium of American law by the author of the first American law dictionary. Divided into six books (law and government, persons, things, wrongs, remedies, equity), and based on Pothier's system, Bouvier covers a wide range of topics such as the nature of law and sovereignty, the U.S. government, corporations, civil rights, domestic issues, duties and rights of master and servant, paternity, title by original acquisition and by war, patents, contracts, sales, bailments, bills of exchange and promissory notes, estates, trusts, property, libel, remedies, courts, evidence, and equity. Extensively notated and indexed. |
Contents
Corporeal hereditaments | 399 |
Easements and profits à prendre | 409 |
Rents annuities and franchises | 429 |
Estates of inheritance 437 | 437 |
Estates for life | 445 |
Estates less than freehold | 462 |
Estates upon condition | 474 |
Time of enjoyment of estates | 482 |
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Master and apprentice | 93 |
SECOND BOOK OF THINGS Chapter I Nature and kinds of things | 98 |
Title by original acquisition and by war | 112 |
Contracts | 131 |
The different kinds of contracts | 159 |
Extinction of obligations | 185 |
Form of contracts | 209 |
Of sales | 226 |
Of bailments | 241 |
The form of marriage 256259 | 256 |
The proof of marriage 262271 | 262 |
The effect of void and voidable marriages 272274 | 272 |
Bills of exchange and promissory notes | 278 |
Duties of parents toward children 282289 | 282 |
The dissolution of marriage 290301 | 290 |
Insurance bottomry respondentia gaming and wagers | 291 |
Agency | 313 |
Suretyship and guaranty | 343 |
Partnership | 360 |
Title to personal property by operation of law | 390 |
Number and connection of tenants | 492 |
Uses and trusts | 500 |
The duties of the apprentice 410 | 508 |
Powers | 511 |
Title to real estate by act of law | 519 |
Title to real estate by deed and by record | 534 |
Title to property by will | 562 |
Title to real estate by occupancy prescription and custom | 589 |
THIRD BOOK OF WRONGS Chapter I Wrongs to the person | 595 |
Libel and slander | 603 |
Malicious prosecution and arrest | 610 |
Inquiries to the relative rights | 615 |
Inquiries to personal property | 620 |
Inquiries to real property in possession | 632 |
The state governments 7378 | 73 |
The passage of laws 79 | 79 |
The application of the law 85 | 85 |
The repeal of laws 9195 | 91 |
Over what places the laws extend 132135 | 132 |
THE KINDS OF PERSONS | 157 |
Paternity and filiation 302325 | 302 |
The rights of the apprentice 411 | 411 |
BOOK SECOND | 520 |
CHAPTER I | 659 |
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