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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by
JOHN BOUVIER,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn
sylvania.
L 6715
NOV 11 1932
DEACON & PETERSON, PRINTERS,
66 SOUTH THIRD STREET.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
BOOK II-OF THINGS.
C. 10. Of agency, 1.
S. 1. Of the principal, 2.
1. Who may be a principal, 2.
2. Of the number of principals, 2.
S. 2. Of the agent, 3.
§ 1. Who may be an agent, 3.
§ 2. Of the number of agents, 4.
3. Of the kinds of agents, 5.
A. 1. Of attorneys at law, 5.
A. 2. Of attorneys in fact, 6.
1. Of auctioneers, 6.
2. Of brokers, 7.
3. Of clerks, 9.
4. Of factors, 9.
5. Of ships' husbands, 10.
6. Of masters of ships, 10.
7. Of partners, 11.
8. Of public agents, 11.
§ 4. Of the mode of appointing an agent, 12.
A. 1. Of express appointment, 12.
A.2. Of implied appointment, 13.
§ 5. Of the authority of the agent, 14.
A. 1. General and special authority, 14.
A. 2. Of the lawfulness and unlawfulness of the authority, 17.
A. 3. Of a naked authority and an authority coupled with an in-
terest, 18.
A. 4. Of the execution of the authority, 18.
1. By whom the authority must be executed, 19.
2. How the authority is to be executed, 19.
3. Within what time the authority must be executed, 21.
A. 5. Of the ratification of the agent's acts, 21.
1. Nature of the ratification, 21.
2. By what acts the ratification may be made, 22.
3. Of the effects of ratification, 24.
1. When the party had no authority to act, 24.
2. When the agent has exceeded his authority, 26.
3. What acts void or voidable may be ratified, 27.
4. Of the time and extent of the ratification, 27.
S. 3. Of the rights of the principal, 28.
1. Of the principal's rights against the agent, 28.
§ 2. Of the principal's rights against third persons, 29.
S. 4. Of the liabilities of the principal, 31.
§ 1. Of the principal's liability to his agent, 31.
§ 2. Of the principal's liability to third persons, 31.
S. 5. Of the rights of the agent, 35.
§ 1. Of the agent's rights against his principal, 35.
§ 2. Of the agent's rights against third persons, 37.
A. 1. Of rights arising on contracts, 37.
A. 2. Of rights arising from torts or injuries, 38.
S. 6. Of the liability of the agent, 39.
§ 1. Of the agent's liability to his principal, 39.
§ 2. Of the agent's liability to third persons, 41.
A. 1. Of the agent's liability on his contracts with third persons, 41.
A. 2. Of the agent's liability for his torts to third persons, 42.
1. Of acts of nonfeasance, 43.
2. Of acts of misfeasance, 43.
S. 7. Of the dissolution of the contract of agency, 44.
§ 1. Of the dissolution by act of the parties, 44.
A. 1. Of the revocation of the authority, 44.
1. When the revocation may be made, 44.
2. When the revocation takes effect, 45.
3. Modes of revocation, 46.
4. Of the limits of the power of revocation, 47.
A. 2. Of the renunciation by the agent, 47.
§ 2. Of the dissolution by operation of law, 48.
A. 1. Dissolution by the efflux of time, 48.
A. 2. Dissolution by the happening of some event, 48.
Art. 3. Dissolution by a change in the condition of the parties, 48.
1. Incapacity of the principal, 48.
2. Incapacity of the agent, 49.
A. 4. Dissolution by death of the parties, 50.
1. Death of the principal, 50.
2. Death of the agent, 51.
A. 5. Dissolution by extinction of subject matter, 51.
A. 6. Dissolution by extinction of the power, 51.
C. 11. Of suretyship, 52.
S. 1. Of the parties, 53.
§ 1. Of the principal, 53.
§ 2. Of the creditor, 54.
§ 3. Of the surety, 55.
S. 2. Of the form of the contract of suretyship, 56.
S. 3. Of the extent of the obligation of surety, 57.
S. 4. Of the extinction of the contract of suretyship, 59.
§ 1. By the terms of the contract, 59.
§ 2. By the acts of the principal and creditor alone, 60.
A. 1. By compromise, 60.
A. 2. By respite or giving time, 61.
A. 3. By novation, delegation, and alteration of the contract, 62.
A. 4. By accord and satisfaction, 63.
A. 5. By the surrender of collaterals by the creditor, 63.
§ 3. By acts of the principal alone, 64.
A. 1. By performance of covenants and payment of debts, 64.
A. 2. By tender, 65.
A. 3. By set off, 66.
§ 4. By acts or omissions of creditor alone, 67.
5. By acts of the surety, 69.
6. By fraud, 70.
§ 7. By operation of law, 71.
A. 1. By lapse of time, 71.
A. 2. By confusion, 72.
A. 3. By bankruptcy, 72.
A. 4. By death, 73.