Ship, British, constitution and dis- posal of property in, 64. See Vessels.
arrestment and process of sale of, 471.
hypothec on, for repairs, 352. insurance on, 196. See Insur-
lien on, for repairs, 347. See Lien. See Sale of Moveables. Must be British subject to secure privileges, 65. See Shipping, Vessels.
Shipowners', responsibility of, for contracts as to ship, 470. For safety of goods, 277. See Ship- ping.
lien of, for freight, 348.
regulations as to, by registry act, 65. See Vessels. Shipmaster, delivery through, 161. Shipping, 269. The Master, 278. How appointed, ib. Power to contract, 279. Bond, ib. Ob- servance of the merchant sea-
men's act, ih. Mariners, 261. Method of hiring, ib. Method of compelling to perform their contract, 262. Wages and me- thod of enforcing payment of them, ib. Where no freight earned, 263. Responsibility of Owners for Contracts as to Ship, 270. How purchasers and mort- gagees responsible, ib. Employ- ment of Ship in Conveying Goods, 271. Charter-party, ib. Ship on general freight, ib. Bill of Lad- ing, 272. Nature of, ib. Who may hold, ib. Effect of endorse- ment, 273. Freight and other Charges, ib. Primage, hat-money, and petty average, ib. Freight by time and by bulk, ib. Dead freight, ib. Who responsible for freight, ib. When it begins to run, 275. How far due when voyage not safely completed, ib. Lay Days and Demurrage, 276. Working or running days, ib. How demurrage compensated, ib. Responsibility of Owners for Safety of Goods, 277. Edict nautæ caupones, ib. Exceptions from responsibility, ib. Obligation as to sea-worthiness, ib. Convoy, 278. Termination of voyage, ib. Average, 280. Special or parti- cular, ib. General, ib. Property sacrificed for general welfare, ib.
Manner and circumstances, ib. 281. What contributes, ib. Ad- justment, ib. Salvage, ib. How gained, 182. Passengers, ib. Joint salvors, ib. Ship of war, ib. Owners, ib. Jurisdiction, ib. Shops, letting of, 284. See Land- land and Tenant, Hypothec, Se- questration.
Short date, bill at, 308. Signature to a deed, 135. bill, 314. Bill. Singular successor, what leases good against, 288.
See Written Deed,
Skilled labour, responsibility of person who undertakes, 252. Slander, 430. See Reputation, injuries to.
Sleeping-partner, 178. Must come forward in sequestration, 396. Slip in marine insurance, 197. See Insurance.
Small-debt actions, general nature of the law of, 450.
- Sheriff-court, 457. What actions may be brought, ib. Multiple- poinding, ib. Forms and practice, 452. Circuit-courts, ib. Seques- tration for rent, 465.
Justice of Peace Court, 453. Points in which different from Sheriff-courts, ib.
Small debts, imprisonment for, abo- lished, 458.
contracts inferring, 131. See Contract.
Soccage holdings, 53. Society or company, 176. See Part- nership.
Solemnities of deeds, 133. Special charge to enter heir, 475. service, 101.
Specification for patent, 86. See Patent.
Stablers, lien of, 348. See Lien.
responsibility of, to the public, 440. See Responsibility. Staff and baton, symbols in resigna- tion, 169.
Stamp, what deeds must have, 142. Exemptions, 141. Effect of want of, 142. Policies, bills, notes, re- ceipts, apprentice indentures, 143. Wrong stamp, ib. Colonial and foreign deeds, 144.
of bills and notes, 308. See Bills.
of policies of insurance, 198. See Insurance.
Arbitration. Subscription of a deed, 134. See Written Deed.
of a Bill, 314. See Bill. Substitutions in deeds of provision, 90, 95, see Succession to Heritage; Entails, 104, see Succession to Moveables.
Succession, 90. Persons who can succeed, ib. Distinction between Heritage and Moveables, ib. 45. Heirship moveables, 92. Securi- ties and other incorporeal rights, 47. How affected by owner's in- tention, 46. Machinery, ib.
to heritable property, 90. Legal Succession, ib. Male descendants, ib. Females, ib. Heirs portioners, ib. Collaterals, ib. Heirs to con- quest, 91. Collaterals and collat- eral ascendants, ib. 92. Ascend- ants, 92. Last heirs, ib. Bastard with no legitimate children, ib. Heirship moveables, ib. Collation when heir to heritage partakes in moveables, ib. Deed of Provision, 93. Form and nature, ib. Ex- planation of technicalities, 94. Substitutions, 95. Marriage-con- tracts, &c., ib. Questions as to fee and liferent, ib. Modification in questions between husband and wife, 96. Children, ib. (See En- tail.) Deeds on Death-bed, 97. Privilege of reducing, ib. Limita- tions, 60 days, Kirk and market, ib. Illustrations, 98. Who may challenge, ib. Homologation, 99. What deeds may be reduced, ib. How heir barred from objecting, 100. Investment by Service, ib. By whom required, ib. Special, ib. General, 102. Clare Constat, ib. Trust-bond, 103. Investment in Burgage Tenements, ib. Forms,
103. Hasp and staple, ib. Heir's liability for ancestor's debts, 476. See Deceased Debtor. Succession to moveable property, 104. Order of Succession, ib. Col- lation, 92. Effects of the deceased's domicile, 104. Distribution, 105. Various positions in which suc- cession to a married person may be placed, ib. Jus relicta, legitim, dead's part, ib. 107. Effect of a party renouncing, ib. Wills or Testaments, ib. Form and nature, ib. What will render invalid, 108. Formalities of executing, ib. Where testator cannot write, ib. Holograph will, ib. Last will, 109. Nomination of executor, ib. Legacies and Bequests, 110. Úni- versal, ib. General, ib. Special, ib. Conditions and Substitutions, 111. Vesting of conditional leg- acy, meaning given to expres- sions in substitutions, ib. 112. Taxes on Succession, 113. Inven- tory duty, ib. Legacy duty, ib. Confirmation of Executor, 114. Nominate, ib. Order of choice where no nomination, ib. Vest- ing of property, ib. Duties of Executor, 115. Preferable debts, ib. Ordinary debts, ib. Period within which creditors to claim, ib. Creditors of executor, 116. Vicious intromission, ib. Succession by deed of entail, 116. See Entail.
Sucken, 283. See Mills. Summary, diligence on bill or note, 334, 455. See Bill.
on Clause of registration, Superior, feudal, 51. See Land. Casualties of, 53. Charter from, 54. Entry with, by resignation and confirmation, 55.
security of, for his feu-duties, 360. See Ranking. Superiority, 51. See Lands, Su- perior.
Suretiship, 212. See Cautionary Obligations, Guarantee. Surgeon, responsibility of, for pro- fessional knowledge, 252. Surrender of bankrupt in sequestra- tion, 397.
Suspension and Interdict, when employed, 427.
Stair, Lord, his Institute, 10.
TACIT relocation, 289. See Land- lord and Tenant.
Tack. See Landlord and Tenant. Tailzie, 116. See Entail.
Tait's Index to the Decisions, 13. Taxed ward, 52. See Land. Taxes on moveable succession, 113. Tenant, 286. See Landlord and Tenant.
Tenendas, clause of, in charter, 54. Tenures, the various, of property, 45.
of land, 51. See Land. Terce, widows', 31.
Terms of payment of rent, 290.
for hiring servants, 253. Testament, 107. See Succession to Moveables.
Testing clause, 137. See Written Deed.
Thelusson's Act, 234. Thirlage, 283. See Mills.
Title to landed property,-complet- ing, 169. By trustee in seques- tration, 400.
of a patent, 86. See Patent. deeds, custody of, 90. Lien on, 250. Tocher lost on divorce, 29. On death within year and day of marriage, 30.
Tonnage, ascertainment of, 66. See Vessels.
Total loss in marine insurance, 202. See Insurance. Trade-fixtures, 295. See Landlord and Tenant. Trader, against what sort seques- tration may be awarded, 375. Transitu, stopping in, 164. Sale of Moveables. Translations, copyright in, 74. Copyright.
Travellers, commercial, 246. Treatises, legal, authority of, 12. Triennial prescription of servants' wages, 257.
of book debts, 447. See Prescription. Truck system, act abolishing, 265. Trust for behoof of creditors, 423. Nature of the deed, ib. Effect of bankruptcy on, ib. Accession of creditors, 424. By formal deed, and tacit, ib.
bond, investment of heir by, 103. deed granted by a partner, 185. Trusts, general law of, 231. Ex- planation, ib. Nature of the con-
tract, ib. How the constitution of the trust proved, 232. Abso- lute conveyance for trust purpose, ib. Investment of trustee, 233. Purposes, ib. Public and private, distinguished, ib. Restrictions in trusts, 234. Thelusson's act, ib. Perpetual settlements, ib. Re- ference of constitution of the trust to the powers of the several trus- tees, 234, 235. Quorum, 235. Whether they can withhold their consent from ordinary acts of management, ib. Power to re- sign, ib. Nature and limitation of powers of trustees, 236. Re- sponsibility of trustees, 237. Ac- counting for funds, ib. Respon- sibility for defalcations of others, ib. Doing acts out of the limit of the trust, 238. Authority to liti- gate, ib. Effect of personally pro- fiting by their acts, 239. Author- ity of Court of Session, and power to give redress, ib.
Trustee in sequestration, election of, 385. Appeal against, 387. Con- firmation, ib. Duties, 389. Re- moval, 391. Discharge, 393. See Sequestration.
right of retention of, 350. arrestment in hands of, 467. in cessio, 421. See Cessio. lease by, 285.
Tutors, 38, et seq. See Guardian and Ward.
Tutory, parent's, 34. See Parent and Child.
Twopenny acts, the, for protection of magistrates, 436.
UMPIRE, selection of, in arbitration, 241. Underwriter in marine insurance, 197. See Insurance. May be se- questrated, 375.
Urban servitudes, 61. See Servi- tude.
Usage, effect of. See Lien, Master and Servant, Sale. Usance, bill payable at, 304. Usual memorandum in policy, 199. See Insurance.
Usurious obligations, 132. See Con- tracts. Transactions as to bills, 330. See Bills. Exemption from usury laws as to loans by late act, 133, 330.
V. VALUED policy, 199, 203.
Valuing a security in ranking in se-
questration, 383, 404. Vassal, feudal, 51. History of the feudal law, 52, 53. Present posi- tion of vassals, 54. Title, ib. 55. Infeftment, 55, 58. Entry with superior, 169. See Confirmation, Infeftment, Land, Resignation, Superior.
Vehicle, assythement for person killed by, 430. Vendition of ship, 174.
Venditioni exponas, 465. See Extent. Vendor and purchaser. See Sale. Verdict of idiotcy or insanity, 125. Veritas convicii in actions for de- famation, 430.
Vessels, British, constitution and disposal of property in, 64. The requisites which entitle a vessel to the privileges, ib. 65. Extent of the privileges, ib. Register, ib. Declaration of build, survey, and other preliminaries to registering, ib. Ascertainment of tonnage, ib. Certificate, ib. Security for its preservation, ib. Sale and assign- ment, 174. Indorsement, 175. Mortgage, ib.
Vessels, employment of, 269. See Shipping
arrestment and process of sale of, 471. Vesting of sequestrated estate in trustee, 398. See Sequestra- tion.
Vicennial prescription in holograph writings and services, 449. Vicious intromission with property of a deceased person, 116. Voting of creditors in sequestration, 381. See Sequestration. Vouchers, production of, by claim- ant in sequestration, 382. Voyage, 271. See Shipping.
WADSET, 338. See Bond. Wager, not given effect to, 129. policy, 197. See Insurance. Wages, not arrestable, 467.
of servants, privileged, 257, 357. See Master and Servant.
of Manufacturers, summary means of recovering, 264.
of seamen, method of enforcing,
War policy, contracts inconsistent with, 132.
Ward, 38. See Guardian and Ward. - holdings, 52. See Land. Warding, Act of, 457. See Dili- gence.
Warehouse, bonded, delivery of goods in, 164. See Sale of Move- ables.
Warehousekeeper's certificate, 248. Warehouseman may be seques- trated, 375.
Warning servants, 254. tenants, 300.
Warrandice, 149, see Sale. 168, see Land.
Warrant to imprison for civil debt under old form, 456. Under new, 457. By act of warding, ib. See Diligence.
small debt, 451, 453. See Small Debts.
- jedge and, 344. Warranty in sea insurance, 201. Fire, 206. Life, 209. See Insur-
in sale, 149. See Sale. Watering of cattle, 62. See Servi- tude.
Way, right of, 62. Interdict regard- ing, 428.
Wearing apparel not given up in cessio, 421. Wharfinger may be sequestrated, 375.
certificate of, 248. lien of, 350. White-bonnets, 158. See Auction. Widow, right of, to terce, 31. Jus relictæ, 105.
Wife, 15. See Husband and Wife. Cannot be tutor, 39. See Guardian and Ward. Share of common property, 105. Pro- vision to, on entailed estate,
Woods, leases of, 284. See Land- lord and Tenant.
Works, public, facilities for, on en- tailed lands, 123.
Working days, 276. See Ship- ping.
Workmen, contracts with, 251. See Labour.
statutory remedies for disputes with their employers, 264.
tools of, not given up on cessio,
Woven fabrics, copyright in, 76. Writ, effect of, in eliding prescrip- tion, 447.
where bill prescribed, 333. Writer, 250. See Agent. Written deeds, solemnities of, 133. General explanations, ib. Deeds prepared abroad, ib. Granter's Name and Subscription, 134. Di- rections, ib. Initials, ib. What assistance may be given, ib. How often signature required, 135. Knowledge of contents, ib. Sub- scription by notaries, ib. nesses, 136. Statutory regulations, ib. How interpreted, ib. Who
may be witnesses, 137. Interest, character, &c., ib. Testing Clause, ib. Example, 138. Illustrations of inaccuracy, ib. Designation of writer and witnesses, ib. Place
and date, ib. Holograph Writ- ings, or in handwriting of granter, 139. Privileged Writings, 140. Commercial documents, ib. What included, ib. Merchants' accounts, 141. Stamp Laws, ib. See Stamps. Delivery, 144. When necessary for rendering deed binding, ib. Equivalents, ib. Deeds of provi- sion to children, 145. Wrongous imprisonment, damages for, 435.
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