BILLS, NOTES, AND CHEQUES-continued. amount recoverable, 759 interest, 844-851 defacing stamp on payment, 760 delivering up a bill or note on payment, 762 adding a condition or qualification, 765—9 extinguishment, 771 satisfaction, 772 discharge, 773-5 discounting, receiving, or cashing a bill or note or nego- payment of a forged or altered cheque, 776 forged indorsement, 777—9 lost or stolen notes, bills, &c., 697, 781-5 crossed cheques, 786-806 bills and notes under 5l., 807, 808 clerk, wife, or agent making, drawing, indorsing, and BUGS, 502 BUILDINGS. See LIGHT-AIR-WINDOWS-FIRE, &c. waste in, 282, 283 support of, 442 endangering, 302 injury to, 266 pulling down, 285 rebuilding in the city, 436 right to build, 431a, 431b BURIAL, of a non-parishioner, 218 BUSHES, САВ, property in, 504 liability of proprietor for driver, 1029, 1071 CANAL COMPANIES, 1176, 1177. See CARRIERS. CARICATURES, recovery of the price of, 204 CARRIERS, insurance by, 965 definition of a common carrier, 1176, 1177 duty of carriers, 1178-1183 damages for non-delivery within the agreed time, 1184 of carriers of goods, 1185-1190 of carriers of passengers, 1189, 1206 of railway companies in cases of accident, 1207-1211 dangerous articles, 1191-4 valuable or special articles, 1195-7 limiting liability, 1198-1204 carriage beyond limits, 1205 party to sue carriers, 1218 lien of, 597 "CASE,” 1310-1312 CATS, injuries to, 310 CELLARS, unguarded, 27, 28 CESSPOOL, 271 CHAMPERTY, 217 CHARACTER. See LIBEL-SLANDER-MASTER AND SER- CHEQUE, defined, 654 how it differs from a bill of exchange, 656 altering date, 817 duty of bankers to get cheques cashed, 811, 812 customer having accounts at two branches, 816 payment by cheque, 856 CHILDREN. See PARENT AND CHILD-GUARDIAN AND enticing away, 1096 CHOSES IN ACTION, CHURCH, turning a person out of, 13 CLERK. See PRINCIPALS AND AGENTS. term servant applies to, 1062 duration of engagement, 1064-8 authority to write, draw, indorse, or accept bills or notes, 1115 payment to, 1151 COACH. See CARRIERS. accident, 35, 1071-4 COALS, sale of, 577 COGNISANCE, 1323 COGNOVIT, 147 by an infant, 208, 209 COHABITATION, contract founded on, 204 COMMISSION, 192, 1129–1131 COMMODATUM, 1021, 1023, 1024 COMMON, disturbance of, 298 COMPOSITION, deed of, 865 CONCEALMENT, 194-7, 338, 865, 957 CONFIRMATION, of a contract or conveyance, 226 CONSIDERATION. See CONTRACTS-BILLS AND NOTES- CONSTABLE, arrest by, 49-52, 58, 63, 66 protection to, 67 CONSTRUCTION, of contracts, 231–251a CONTRACTOR. See MASTER AND SERVANT-EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED. liability for acts of workmen of, 1069 loss by being misled by a specification, 1295 CONTRACTS GENERALLY. For particular contracts, see unilateral and bilateral, 141 express and implied, 142, 143 implied contracts on which an assumpsit was brought, 1304 executed and executory, 144 further division of contracts, 145 contracts of record, 146–9 cognovit, 147 recognisance, 148 characteristics of contracts of record, 149 how contracts of record enforced, 149 what contracts binding on heir or devisee, 150 contracts under seal, 150 simple contracts, 151, 152 merger thereof, 153 parol agreement, 154 requisites to a contract, 155 how an express contract may be created, 155 terms must be definitely settled, 155 mutual assent necessary, 156 rescission of an offer, 157 posting a letter of acceptance, 158 where the contract must be in writing, signed, 159–171 verbal assent to an alteration, 172 three ingredients in a simple contract, 173 consideration, what contracts require a consideration, 150, 152 what amounts to à consideration, 174–7 from whom the consideration must move, 178 considerations executed, executory, contemporaneous, where the consideration will not support an express necessity for a request, 181 where the request or promise is implied, 182—4 what contracts prove themselves, 149 |