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Public Officers, and Compensation Acts, 272

Purchasers of vessels, liability of, 238

Quasi Contract, 218; definition, 218; gift cannot be reclaimed, 218; recovery for incidental advantage to another, 218, 219; for service rendered as gratuity, 219; for goods accepted without intended payment, 219; for perished property, 220; premium on insurance policy, 220; recovery in case of indefinite promise, 220; contract not executed as law requires, 220, 221; especially Statute of Frauds, 221, 222; recovery for use of unpaid for land, 222; recovery impossible in case of no benefit, 222; recovery impossible by taking advantage of one's own default, 223; recovery for loss in course of alteration and repair, 223; in case of illness or death of contractor, 223; in wagering contract, 224; in contracts made on Sunday, 224; on partnership note given for benefit of partner, 224; of goods delivered by carrier to wrong person, 224; of payment made by mistake, 225; when consideration has totally failed, 225; voluntary payment, 225; recovery of check not covered by deposit, 225; goods sold as own which are not, 225; goods that are worthless, 225; forced benefit cannot be recovered, 226

Quit, form for notice to, 299

Quit-claim, 106; form for deed of, 285, 286

Quo warranto, action of, 166

Race track news by telegraph, 217

Railroad receivers, 8

Ratification, defective notice of meeting may be cured by, 83

Real Estate, broker, 45, 46; deeds, 101-112; monuments, 111; boundaries of, in cities, 111; non-navigable stream, 111; tidal navigable stream, 112; natural or artificial pond as boundary, 111, 112; title to land in public highway, 112; liability of examiner of title, 112, 113; equity awards money for failure of contract, 120; equity will enforce covenants, 122; seller favored by law in regard to fixtures, 132, 133; conveyance of, in Statute of Frauds, 242. See Lease

Receipt not conclusive evidence of payment, 213

Receiver, duties of, 79; has insurable interest in goods, 126. See Corporation

Registration of vessels, 235

Release, 106; by ward of his guardian, form for, 314

Rent, 160

Replevin, action of, 165

Representation, as distinguished from warranty, 260

Retraction, of slander and libel, 255

Revocation of wills, 266

Right of way, 214; to light and air, 215; to use of water, 216; to lateral support of land, 217

Riparian owner, rights of, 112

Roads, public, 19

Safe Deposit Company, as bailee, 29

Sale, 227; future contract to sell and present sale, 227; based on mutual assent, 227; executory, 227; executed, 227; based on mutual assent, 227; may be conditional, 227; regulation of capacity to buy and sell, 228; contracts of a minor, 228; Sales Act and Statute of Frauds, 229; limit of enforcement of sale, 229; an undivided share, 229; specific goods, 230; fixing of price in a, 230; determination of reasonable price, 231; and warranties, 231; satisfaction of buyer necessary, 231; implied warranty in a, 232, 233; transfer of ownership in a, 233; delivery and acceptance in a, 234; delivery of goods or documents on payment, 234; speculative stock, 235; of goods, wares, and merchandise in Statute of Frauds, 242; various modes of completing, 243; of land, form for agreement for, 297; Bill of, form for, 281; form for notice of, under mortgage, 291

Sales Act, 17, 228; and undivided share of goods, 229; and Statute of Frauds, 229; and specific goods, 230; fixing of price in, 230; determination of reasonable price, 231; satisfaction of buyer necessary, 231; warranty and implied warranty, 232, 233; delivery and acceptance, 234; delivery of goods or documents on payment, 234

Seal, use of, 106; effect of, in a receipt for payment, 214

Seamen, of vessels, laws pertaining to, 241

Separation, between husband and wife, 143, 144

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