Chapter LVIII.
§1. Define agent, principal, factor. What is a factor sometimes called?
§2. How is a factor secured for money advanced on property?
§3. What is this right to hold property called? How is he restricted?
§4. How far is a principal bound by the acts of a general agent? What is a general agent?
§5. How far is an agent bound to his principal? In what case may he depart from his instructions?
§6. By what rule is he to be governed?
§7. What degree of diligence and skill must he exercise? What is ordinary diligence? Reasonable skill?
§8. In what cases is an agent responsible to the person with whom he deals? In what case is a principal liable for goods bought by an agent in his own name?
§9. What is a broker? His ordinary business? In what does he differ from a factor?
§10. What is a lien? For whose benefit is the right intended? How their right restricted?
Chapter LIX.
§1. Define partnership?
§2. In what cases does the act of one partner bind all, and in what does it not?
§3. What cases of association are here mentioned that are not partnerships?
§4. How are they to sue and be sued?
§5. What cannot a partner do without the consent of all? What may dissolve a partnership at any time? §
§6. Why should notice of dissolution be published when any partner withdraws? How else may he become liable?
§7. How are limited partnerships formed?
§8. For what amount are the special partners liable? Whose names are used For what are the general partners liable? If the partnership is to be dissolved by the act of the parties, what is to be done?
Chapter LX.
§1. What is a promissory note? Give a form.
§2. What is the effect of inserting "or bearer," or, "or order"? If payable to order, how is it made negotiable? Why is a note called negotiable? If not negotiable, how is it to be sued?
§3. What is a blank indorsement? A full indorsement? What is sometimes done in case of a blank indorsement?
§4. Show, by example, the benefit of making a note payable to order instead of to bearer.
§5. Why are the words "value received" inserted? Is a note without these words collectable?
§6. In what different ways may notes signed by two or more persons be written, to be joint, or joint or several?
§7. By Whom may a negotiable note be sued? In what case can a holder of a note recover upon it, though he received it of a person who had stolen it?
§8. To what rule is this an exception? Why is this exception?
§9. On the other hand, what is required to protect the owner? What should the owner do?
§10. What is the risk in buying a note after it has become due? How is it when no day of payment is expressed? What regulation exists in New Jersey and Pennsylvania?
§11. What is the law respecting notes payable in some commodity?
§12. When do notes payable on demand, or in which no time of payment is mentioned, become due and suable? Notes payable at sight, or after sight? If the words "with interest" are omitted, when does interest commence? If payable on demand, when?
§13. What are days of grace? How do they affect a note?
§14. To bind an indorser, when must payment be demanded?
§15. If payment is refused, how and when is the indorser to be notified?
§16. In case the maker's residence is unknown, how is payment to be demanded?
§17. State the effect of the different modes of guarantying notes.
Chapter LXI.
§1. What is a bill of exchange? Give a form.
§2. What are foreign bills of exchange? Inland?
§3. Give an example of its operation and effect?
§4. How is a bill accepted? How is the acceptor liable? How is payment demanded?
§5. When must bills payable at sight, or a certain day after sight, or after date, be presented for acceptance? When presented for payment?
§6. What is the nature of a bank check?
§7. What is the business of a notary public? Define protest.
§8. What is said of protesting inland bills of exchange?
§9. What is interest?
§10. Give the rates of interest in the different states. What is it in this state?
§11. What is usury? What is the forfeiture for taking usury in this state?
Chapter LXII.
§1. Are the penalties for crimes the same in all the states? Is the measure of punishment always the same for the same offense, in any state? Who fixes the measure of punishment?
§2. What crimes are punishable by death in this state?
§3. Why are crimes punishable by death called capital crimes? Define capital.
§4. Define treason.
§5. What is murder? Are there different degrees of murder in this state?
§6. Define manslaughter. How many degrees of manslaughter in this state?
§7. What is arson? Define arson in the first degree. How is this degree punishable in this state?
§8. What is homicide? When is it felonious? What is justifiable and excusable homicide?
§9. What is maiming? Kidnapping? What other crimes are here mentioned as felonies?
§10. What is burglary? Why is the crime deemed greater when committed in the night time?
§11. Define forgery and counterfeiting?
§12. Define robbery, and an attempt to rob.
§13. What is embezzlement? How is it punishable?
§14. What is larceny? What is grand, and what is petit larceny?
§15. What is perjury? What is subornation of perjury?
§16. Define bribery.
§17. What is dueling? Is dueling murder in this state?
§18. Is aiding a prisoner to escape a crime?
§19. What is bigamy? What is the difference between bigamy and polygamy?
§20. What is incest?
§21. In what case is opening a grave a crime? How is it punishable in this state?
§22. Who are accessories to crime?
§23. Define assault and battery.
§24. What is a riot? How may riots be suppressed?
§25. What grade of offense is it for an officer to rescue a prisoner or voluntarily to suffer him to escape?
§26. What is false imprisonment?
§27. What grade of offense are the four offenses last named? What other misdemeanors are mentioned in this section? Can you name any other?
Chapter LXIII.
§1. Of what consists the law of nations? What was its early character?
§2. By what means has it been improved?
§3. What particular further improvement is desirable?
§4. What is said of the independence of nations? How, then, is redress for injuries obtained?
§5. What right has a nation in respect to its government? To this rule, what exception do some make?
§6. In what cases may one nation assist another in changing its government?
§7. In what respect are nations mutually dependent?
§8. By what law ought all nations to be governed? What does this law require?
§9. By what names is this law when applied to nations or states called? Why is it so called?
§10. For what reasons do some writers divide it into the natural and positive laws of nations?
§11. Define the positive law of nations. How is it divided? Define the customary law of nations.
§12. What is a conventional law of nations? Define convention.
§13. What is the advantage of conventional law?
§14. By what consideration is the observance of treaties induced?
§15. What is a perfect obligation? An imperfect obligation? Why are the obligations of nations called imperfect?
Chapter LXIV.
§1. What rights have nations on the seas? By what laws are persons at sea governed?
§2. Over what waters flowing through its territory has a nation jurisdiction? To what distance on the sea?
§3. What right have other nations to a passage over its lands and waters? Why is this an imperfect right?
§4. What are the mutual rights and duties of a state and foreign immigrants?
§5. What is its duty in respect to foreign criminals?
§6. What is said of the responsibility of embassadors? For bad conduct, how are they punishable? Why are they not amenable to the laws of the foreign state?
§7. What rights have they in countries through which they pass? What is a passport?
§8. How are embassadors dealt with for disrespectful conduct at a foreign court?
§9. What do ministers do when they are ill-treated?
§10. If a government, for good cause, refuses to receive a minister, what is its duty?
§11. What power has a minister in making treaties?
§12. To what laws are consuls subject? What is their business?
Chapter LXV.
§1. Define offensive and defensive war. What are the contending parties called? Who are neutrals?
§2. What are the proper characteristics of a war?
§3. What are objects of a lawful war?
§4. When is a personal injury to the citizens of one state by those of another deemed just cause of war?
§5. What ought a government to do before resorting to war to redress injuries?
§6. How is satisfaction sometimes sought without making war? How are reprisals made? Define confiscate.
§7. To justify reprisals, what is necessary?
§8. How far is a nation bound by a treaty of alliance to assist another in war?
§9. In what cases is it not bound to render the aid?
§10. What if the alliance is defensive? Is the government that first applies force always the aggressor?
Chapter LXVI.
§1. How is war usually announced? By what authority?
§2. Is a declaration communicated to the enemy? What is deemed sufficient?
§3. When war is declared, who are involved in it?
§4. How does war in a state affect the persons and property of the enemy's subjects found within such state?
§5. How is trade between the two countries affected by the war?
§6. What is necessary to make offensive hostilities lawful? In what case would such permission be beneficial?
§7. How far does a just war give the right to take the life of the enemy?
§8. How are prisoners of war to be treated? What is said about the exchange and ransom of prisoners?
§9. What kinds of property may not, and what may, be destroyed?
§10. What is said of stratagems?
§11. Of spies?
§12. In what kind of war is the destruction of private property lawful? On what ground?
§13. What are privateers? What are their owners authorized to do? How is privateering encouraged?
§14. How is the abuse of this right prevented?
§15. State the proceedings of the captors and the court, in cases of capture?
§16. Who has the primary right to all prizes? How do the citizens get any interest in them?
Chapter LXVII.
§1. To what is a neutral nation bound? What kind of aid to an enemy is unlawful?
§2. How is the trade of a neutral affected by war? With what may she still supply a belligerent?
§3. What is said of the right of a neutral to carry the goods in such cases?
§4. What are prohibited articles called? What goods are contraband?
§5. What is done with contraband goods? In what cases is the vessel also confiscated?
§6. What is a blockade? Its object? How does it affect neutrals?
§7. What is necessary to a lawful blockade? In case a place is blockaded by sea only, how may trade be carried on with it?
§8. What is the right of search? What vessels are subject to search?
§9. In what case is the property of an enemy in a neutral vessel liable to seizure? What is done with the property of neutrals found in an enemy's vessel?
§10. What may not a neutral permit in her ports? What may not her citizens do?
§11. For what purposes are hostilities sometimes suspended? When is the suspension called a suspension of arms? In what cases a truce? What is the difference between a partial and a general truce?
§12. How are the contracting parties and their citizens affected by a truce?
§13. How is peace generally secured?
§14. When do treaties of peace take effect between the parties?
§15. How is the service of mediation performed?