Part 44

Decisions, highest court, 1

Deed, 7, 104; several, used in land deal, 104; warranty, 104; what warrantor agrees to do, 104, 105; encumbrances, 105; indenture, 105; release or quit-claim, 106; poll, 106; use of seal, 106; witnesses, 107; lease, 107; completed before delivery, 107; executor of, 107; when must be read, 107; delivery essential, 107, 108; should be recorded, 108, 109; acknowledgment, 109, 110; execution of, by married woman, 109, 110; Commissioner of, 110; correction of mistake, 110; land must be bounded, 110, 111; equity compels delivery of, 119; of warranty, form for, 282, 283; of indenture, form for, 284; of quit-claim, form for, 285, 286; of mortgage, form for, 287; of mortgage with power of sale, form for, 287; of mortgage on goods and chattels, form for, 289

Defenses, in actions for slander and libel, 254

Delay in telegraph messages, 246

Dependents of workmen, and Compensation Acts, 272

Deposits, how made by agent, 12. See Bank; Check

Desertion, its effect on homestead, 136

Devise of lands, 265

Devisee, of mortgaged land, 182; who may be a, 263, 264

Director, of corporation, 86-93, 94, 96, 100

Discomfort acts of, wrongs, 256

Dividends, 94-98, 125. See Corporation

Divisional tree, law relating to, 113

Divorce, effect of on dower right, 116; effect of on homestead, 136; for what causes granted, 144, 145; absolute, 146; legal effect of, 146, 147. See Husband and Wife

Domicile, of bankrupt, 31; husband's becomes wife's, 139

Dower, 113; defined, 113; paramount to claims of husband's creditors, 113; mortgage has preference, 113; legal marriage necessary, 114; assignment of, 114; may be barred, 115; non-existence of, 115; in exchanged lands, 115; rights of partner's widow, 115; can be released, 116; effect of divorce, 116

Drunkenness, 116; effect of, on contracts, 116, 117; as excuse for crime, 117; liability of sober party, 117, 118; responsibility of common carrier, 118; slander, 118

Earnings, the basis for computation of compensation, 274

Ejectment, action of, 166

Elevator, sale of grain in, 229

Employees, casual, and Compensation Acts, 270; Federal and Compensation Acts, 271

Employer and employee, relations as to patents, 207, 208; Compensation Acts, 266, 267

Enrollment, of vessels, 235

Equitable remedies, 118-122

Equity, court of, 3, 16, 118-122, 128; law and, 3

Eviction, 160, 161

Exchange, bill of. See Bill of Exchange, Note, Negotiable Paper

Executor, authority to vote at corporate meetings, 84; a foreign, 85, 208; may dispose of lease, 155, 156; can assign remainder of lease, 157; when, gets mortgagor's interest, 182; when heirs may require, to pay, 183