Part 48

Massachusetts courts, decision in respect to adopted child, 5

Masters, of vessels, law governing employment, 239; duties and successors of, 240; authority of, 240

Meetings, 83-86

Merchant, duty of, towards public, 151; and traveling salesman, form for agreement between, 311

Merchandise Broker, 45, 46

Messages, telegraph, should not be made public, 247; may be produced by order of a court, 247; criminal offense to divulge, 247; to open or read a sealed, 247; repeated and unrepeated, 248

Minor, limited power of, 7; bid made by, 18; as bailee, 20; cannot become a voluntary bankrupt, 31; as mortgagee, 53; as chauffeur, 57; citizenship of, 62; ability of to sign contracts limited, 65; period of infancy of, fixed by law, 65; cannot subscribe to stock, 75; cannot be held for note, 91; cannot make legal deed, 107; lease made by, void, 155; contracts of a, 176; necessaries and luxuries supplied to a, 176; disaffirmation of contract of a, 177; fraudulent contract of a, 177; can avoid sales contracts, 228; and Statute of Limitations, 244; may be a devisee or legatee, 264; as employee in Compensation Acts, 268

Morawetz, quoted, 88, 89, 100

Mortgage, creditor, can force contract to give, 120; kinds of, 177; may cover future advances, 178; improvements covered, 178, 179; not an absolute conveyance, 179; not changed by contemporaneous agreement, 179; with power of sale, 179, 180; how the power must be executed, 180; mortgagor cannot purchase property sold, 180; lien of vendor for purchase money, 180; how subsequent purchaser is affected, 180; notice of vendor's lien, 181; mortgagor real owner, 181; both parties may insure premises, 181; rights of several mortgagees to same property, 181; right of deviser to money due on, 182; mode of foreclosure on a, 182; payment by joint contributors to discharge, 183; who can redeem a, 183; payment by executor, 183; rights of mortgage of vessel, 238; form for deed of, with power of sale, 287; form for deed of, 287; form for notice of sale under, 291; form for assignment of, 292; see Deed, Chattel Mortgage, Shipping

Mortgage, Chattel, 52; definition of, 52, 53; form of, 52; who may make, 53; creditors may join in giving, 53; description of property, 53, 54; may be given for future advance of money, 54; to render secure from creditor 54; Statutes of, 55, 56; what is included in, 55; rights of mortgagee, 55, 56; form for, with power of sale, 288; form for deed of, 289; see Mortgage

Mortgagee, 55, 56; has insurable interest in goods, 126

Mortgagor, 55, 56; favored by law in regard to fixtures, 133

Motorist, non-resident, 20

Naturalization, 62

Negotiable Instruments Law, 213

Negotiable paper, definition, 183-197; see Note, Promissory

Newspapers, offers and rewards in, 70, 71

Note, promissory, definition, 183; requirements for a, 183; unqualified promise in a, 184; payable on a contingency, 184; payable at a fixed future time, 184; dating of a, 184; seal of a, 184; payable on demand, 184; overdue, 185; payable to order; 185; payable to bearer, 185; ante or past-dated, 185; title to, acquired from date of delivery, 185; a wrongly dated, 186; authority of holder to fill blanks, 186; incomplete until delivery, 187; mode of delivery, 187; ambiguity of a, 187, 188; signature to a, 188; signature by agent, 188; a forged, 188; forged indorsement on a, 188; consideration for a, 189; accommodation party to a, 189; negotiation of a, 189; negotiation by delivery of a, 189; by indorsement and delivery, 189; kinds of indorsement of a, 189; striking out indorsement of a, 189; indorsing to bank or cashier, 190; misspelled or incorrect indorsement, 190; holder in due course, 190; bad faith in negotiating, 190, 191; agreement of maker, 191; liability of indorser, not a party to, 191; presentment of a, for payment, 191, 192, 193; exclusion of days in reckoning due date of, 193; payable at bank, 193; notice of dishonor of a, 193, 194; notice of, to joint parties, 194; notice of, to address as directed, 194; notice of waived, 195; alterations in a, 195; memorandum on a, 195; similarity of indorsed, and bill of exchange, 196; given in payment, 212; and Statute of Limitations, 244

Non-resident Alien, 63, 64

Notice, of sale under mortgage, form for, 291; of meetings, see Corporation; to quit, form for, 299

Nuisances, private, are wrongs, 255

Obligations, various, included in Statute of Limitations, 245

Officer, public, liability of, 52

Option, to purchase land, 16

Owners, in common, of vessels, 236, 237

Parent, natural and adopted, 5; cannot lease land of minor child, 155; of a minor, 177; obligations of, toward child, 197; cessation of, 197; protection of child by, 197; use of child's property by, 197; and child, relations between, 197; see Adopted Child, Husband and Wife

Partner, a member of beneficial association not a, 39; what surviving may do, 85; may waive notice of corporate meeting, 85; dower rights of widow of, 115; cannot lease partnership land, 156; non-investing, not liable for debts, 198; a general agent, 198; limitations of authority of a, 199; silent or secret, liability of, 199, 200; general or special, 200; illegal contract made by a, 201; death of a, 201; succession to by executor, 201; retiring, 201; liquidating, authority of, 202

Partnership, rules for termination of agency, 14; liability of members, 75, 78; stock owned by, represented by partner, 85; contract to form, cannot be enforced, 120; member of, cannot make lease, 156; between tenant and landlord, 161; in a single transaction, 198; Act, 198; liability of non-investing partners in, 198; can hold any kind of property, 198; partners in, are general agents, 198; limitations of authority of partners in, 199; reception of a new member in, 199; formed by definite agreement in writing, 199; silent or secret partners in, 199, 200; limited liability, 200; dissolution of a, 201; death of a partner in, 201; retiring partner in, 201; failure of, disposition of assets, 202; liquidating partner in, 202