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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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