MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

A promise of a debtor to give "satisfactory security" for the pay ment of a portion of his debt, is a sufficient consideration for release of the residue by his creditor.

Administrators are liable to account for interest on funds in their hands, although no profit shall have been made upon them, unlesa the exigencies of the estate rendered it prudent that they should hold the funds thus invested.

Any person who voluntarily becomes an agent for another, and in that capacity obtains information to which as a stranger he could have had no access, is bound, in subsequent dealing with his principal, as purchaser of the property that formed the subject of his agency, to communicate such information.

When a house is rendered untenantable in consequence of improvements made on the adjoining lot, the owner of such cannot recovor damages, because it is presumed that he had knowledge of the approaching danger in time to protect himself from it.

When a merchant ship's abandoned by order of the master, for the purpose of saving life, and a part of the crew subsequently meet the vessel so abandoned, and bring her safe into port, they will be entitled to salvage.

A person who has been led to sell goods by means of false pretences, cannot recover them from one who has purchased them in good faith from the fraudulent vender.

An agreement by the holder of a note to give the principal debtor time for payment without depriving himself of the right to sue, does not discharge the surety.

A seller of goods who accepts, at the time of sale, the note of a third party, not endorsed by the buyer, in payment, cannot, in case the note is not paid, hold the buyer responsible for the value of the goods.

A day book copied from a "blotter" in which charges are first made, will not be received in evidence as a book of original entries.

Common carriers are not liable for extraordinary results of neg. ligence that could not have been foreseen by ordinary skill and foresight.

A bidder at a Sheriff's sale may retract his bid at any time before the property is knocked down to him, whatever may be the conditions of the sale.

Acknowledgment of debt to a stranger does not preclude the operation of the statute.

The fruits and grass on the farm or garden of an intestate des cend to the heir.

Agents are solely liable to their principals.

A deposit of money in bank by a husband in the name of his wife survives to her.

Money paid on Sunday contracts may be recovered.

A debtor may give preference to one creditor over another, unless fraud or special legislation can be proved.

A court cannot give judgment for a larger sum than that specified

in the verdict.

Imbecility on the part of either the husband or the wife invalid ates the marriage.

An action for malicious prosecution will lie, though nothing further was done than suing out warrants.

An agreement not to continue the practice of a profession or business in any specified town, if the party so agreeing has received a consideration for the same, is valid.

When A. consigns goods to B. to sell on commission, and B. delivers them to C. in payment of his own antecedent debts, A. can recover their value.

A finder of property is compelled to make diligent inquiry for the owner thereof, and to restore the same. If, on finding such property, he attempts to conceal such fact, he may be prosecuted For larceny.

A private person may obtain an injunction to prevent a public nischief by which he is affected in common with others.

Any person interested may obtain an injunction to restrain the state or a municipal corporation from maintaining a nuisance on Es lands.

A discharge under the insolvent laws of one State will not dis harge the insolvent from a contract made with a citizen of another State.

To prosecute a party with any other motive than to bring him to justice, is a malicious prosecution, and actionable as such.

Ministers of the gospel, residing in any incorporated town, are not exempt from jury, military, or fire service.

When a person contracts to build a house, and is prevented by sickness from finishing it, he can recover for the part performed if such part is beneficial to the other party.

In a suit for enticing away a man's wife, actual proof of the mar riage is not necessary. Cohabitation, reputation, and the admis. sion of marriage by the parties, are sufficient.

Permanent erections nd fixtures, made by a mortgagor after the execution of the mortgage upon the land conveyed by it, become a part of the mortgaged premises.

When a marriage is denied, and plaintiff has given sufficient evi dence to establish it, the defendant cannot examine the wife to disprove the marriage.

The amount of an express debt cannot be enlarged by application

Contracts for advertisements in Sunday newspapers can be enforced.

A seller of goods, chattels, or other property, commits no fraud, in law, when he neglects to tell the purchaser of any flaws, defects, or unsoundness in the same.

The opinions of witnesses, as to the value of a dog that has been killed, are not admissible in evidence. The value of the animal is to be decided by the jury.

If any person puts a fence on or ploughs the land of ancther he is liable for trespass, whether the owner has sustained injury or

not.

If a person, who is unable from illness to sign his will, has his hand guided in making his mark, the signature is valid.

When land trespassed upon is occupied by a tenant, he alone can bring the action.

To say of a person, "if he does not come and make terms with me, I will make a bankrupt of him, and ruin him," or any such threatening language, is actionable, without proof of special damage.

In an action for slander, the party making the complaint must prove the words alleged; other words of a like meaning will not suffice.

In a suit of damages, for seduction, proof of pregnancy, and the birth of a child, is not essential. It is sufficient if the illness of the girl, whereby she was unable to labor, was produced by shame for the seduction; and this is such a loss of service as will sustain the action.

Addressing to a wife a letter, containing matter defamatory to the character of her husband, is a publication, and renders the writer amenable to damages.

A parent cannot sustain an action for any wrong done to a child, unless he has incurred some direct pecuniary injury therefrom, in consequence of some loss of service, or expenses necessarily conse. quent thereupon.

A master is responsible for an injury resulting from the negli gence of his servant, whilst driving his cart or carriage, provided the servant is, at the time, engaged in his master's business, even though the accident happens in a place to which his master's busi ness does not call him ; but if the journey of the servant be solely for a purpose of his own, and undertaken without the knowledge or consent of his master, the latter is not responsible.

An emigrant depot is not a nuisance in law.

A railroad track through the streets is not a nuisance in law In an action for libel, against a newspaper, extracts from such newspaper may be given to show its circulation, and the extent to which the libel has been published. The jury, in estimating the damages, are to look at the character of the libel, and whether the

defendant is rich cr poor. The plaintiff is entitled, in all cases, to his actual damages, and should be compensated for the mental suf ferings endured, the public disgrace inflicted, and all other actual discomfort produced.

Delivery of a husband's goods by a wife to her adulterer, he hav ing knowledge that she has taken them without her husband's authority, is sufficient to sustain an indictment for larceny against the adulterer.

The fact that the insurer was not informed of the existence of a pending litigation, affecting the premises insured, at the time the insurance was affected, does not vitiate the policy.

The liability of an innkeeper is not confined to personal baggage, but extends to all the property of the guest that he consents to

receive.

When a minor executes a contract, and pays money, or delivers property on the same, he cannot afterwards disaffirm such contract, and recover the money, or property, unless he restores to the other party the consideration received from him for such money or property.

When a person has, by legal inquisition, been found an habitual drunkard, he cannot, even in his sober intervals, make contracts to bind himself or his property, until the inquisition is removed.

Any person dealing with the representative of a deceased person, is presumed, in law, to be fully apprised of the extent of such representative's authority to act in behalf of such estate.

In an action against a railroad company, by a passenger, to recover damages for injuries sustained on the road, it is not compulsory upon the plaintiff to prove actual negligence in the defendants; but it is obligatory on the part of the latter to prove that the injury was not owing to any fault or negligence of theirs.

A guest is a competent witness in an action between himself and an innkeeper, to prove the character and value of lost personal baggage. Money in a trunk, not exceeding the amount reasonably required by the traveller to defray the expenses of the journey which he has undertaken, is a part of his baggage; and in case of its loss, while at any inn, the plaintiff may prove its amount by his own testimony.

The deed of a minor is not absolutely void. The court is authorized to judge, from the instrument, whether it is void or not, according to its terms being favorable or unfavorable, to the interests of the minor.

A murried woman (except in California and Indiana) is entitled in the event of her surviving her husband, to the use of onethird of all his real estate, during her natural life, which interest is called her dower. The widow's dower set apart by her husband, can not be sold to satisfy his debts.

Any contract made with a person judicially declared a lunatic is void

Money paid voluntarily in any transaction, with a knowledge of the facts, cannot be recovered.

In all cases of special contract for services, the plaintiff can ro cover only the amount stipulated in the contract.

A wife is a competent witness with her husband to prove the contents ef a lost trunk.

A wife cannot be convicted of receiving stolen goods when she received them of her husband.

Insurance against fire, by lightning or otherwise, does not cover oss by lightning without combustion.

Failure to prove plea of justification, in a case of slander, aggruvates the offence.

It is the agreement of the parties to sell by sample that constitutes a sale by sample, not the mere exhibition of a specimen of the goods.

An agent is liable to his principals for loss caused by his mis statements, though unintentional.

Makers of promissory notes given in advance for premiums on policies of insurance, thereafter to be taken, are liable thereon.

An agreement to pay for procuring an appointment to office, is void.

An attorney may plead the statute of limitations, when sued by a client for money which he has collected and failed to pay

over.

Testimony given by a deceased witness on a first trial is not re quired to be repeated verbatim on the second.

A person entitling himself to a reward offered for lost property has a lien upon the property for the reward; but only when a

definite reward is offered.

Confession by a prisoner must be voluntarily made to constituto evidence against him.

The defendant in a suit must be served with process; but service of such process upon his wife, even in his absence from the State is not, in the absence of statutory provisions, sufficient.

The measure of damages in trespass for cutting timber, is its value as a chattel on the land where it was felled, and not the market price of the lumber manufactured.

To support an indictment for malicious mischief in killing an animal, malice towards its owner must be shown, not merely pas sion excited against the animal itself.

No action can be maintained against a Sheriff for omitting to ac count for money obtained upon an execution within a reasonable time. He has till the return day to render such account.

An interest in the profits of an enterprise, as profits, renders the party holding it a partner in the enterprise, and makes him pro Bumptively liable to share any loss.