Party wall, form for agreement concerning, 277
Passenger, duty of automobile owner or hirer, in carrying, 22; compensation for carrying, 22; see Carrier
Patent, 202; design, 203; invalidation of an American by a foreign, 204; prior publication for a, 204; defeat of on ground of lack of novelty, 204; must be useful to get a, 204; exercise of inventive power necessary for a, 205; to whom can a be issued? 206; a joint, 207; must be issued in name of real inventors, 207; rights of employee with a, 207; may be issued to assignees, 208; inventor must apply for a, 208; specification of invention to get a, 208, 209; duties of inventor to get a, 209; duties of commissioner and examiner before granting a, 210; right of appeal if not granted, 210; infringement of, and injunction to prevent, 211; form for assignment of right, 304
Pawn Broker, 45, 47
Payment, when can double be required, 9, 211; legal forms of, 211, 212; note or check given in, 212; applications of general on several debts, 212; receipt not conclusive evidence of, 213; effect of a seal in a receipt for, 214; on receipt of documents, 235; partial, of purchase money completes sale, 243; partial, revives debt barred by Statute of Limitations, 245; of money, form for bond for, 305
Peck, quoted, 117
Pedestrian, rights of, 22
Physician, admission of, to beneficial associations, 41; form for agreement for sale of practise of a, 309
Pledgee, authority of, 7; has insurable interest in goods, 126
Pledgor, of stock, 85, 86
Policy, insurance, 168-176; form of assignment of, 302; see Insurance, Fire; Insurance, Life
Poll deed, 106
Possession and control, transfer of constitutes delivery, 243
Postmaster, liability of, 52
Post office, is agency of offerer of contract, 69, 70
Pond, title to land under and around, 112
Power of attorney given to an agent, 7; given by a homesteader, 14; revoked by woman's marriage, 14; form for, 299; to transfer stock, form for, 300
Precedent, nature of, 1
Preference, defined, 32
Preferred stock, see Corporation
Premium, see Insurance, Life; Insurance, Fire
Prescriptive Rights, 214; to land, how gained, 214; how determine whether or not fully acquired, 214; to light and air, 215; to use of water, 216; to lateral support of land, 217; excavations, 218
Price, fixing of, in a sale, 230; determination of reasonable, 231
Promise to pay a debt, renewal of, 244, 245
Property, lost, 26, 27; fraudulent transfer of, 32, 33; real and personal, in wells, 263
Prosecution, liability of corporation for, 99; malicious, is a wrong, 249
Prosecutor, State as, 164; injured person as, 164
Publication, prior, of an invention, 204
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