Master, power to bind the owner,
iii. 161-169.
to borrow money on own-
er's account, iii. 171.
his personal responsibility, iii.
161, 162.
owner's power to dismiss him,
iii. 161.
his character as consignee,
iii. 216.
his character as agent, iii.
216.
power to hypothecate, iii. 162.
164, 165. 171. 173. 212.

his lien, iii. 165--167.
his lien under the French law,
iii. 169.
no lien for his wages, iii. 165,
166.

cannot sue in the admiralty,
iii. 166.
he may in the U. S., iii. 168.
and now in England, i. 371.
power to sell, iii. 173-175.
212.
must employ a pilot, iii. 175.
his discipline, iii. 181, 182.
indictable for malicious pun-
ishment of the crew, iii.
182.
may discharge seamen, iii.

183.

his duties on the voyage, iii.
208-214.
his duties under the French
law, iii. 208. 211.

to make a protest, iii. 213.
on delivery of goods, iii. 214.
abandonment on capture, iii.
331.

procuring another vessel, iii.
210-213.

may sell an insured ship,
when abandoned, iii. 332.
liable for seamen's wages, iii.

196.

Mate of a ship, iii. 176.
Material men, i. 379, iii. 168––170.
Maxims of the law, ii. 552-557.
Mechanics bound to skill, ii. 588.

failing to finish the job, ii.
590, 591.

their lien, ii. 635, note.
Medicine for ships, iii. 178, 179.
Memorandum under statute of
frauds, ii. 510.

in a policy, iii. 294-299.

when national, i. 266.
Mill dams, iii. 440, 441. 444.
streams, iii. 440, 441. 444.
446.

Miller on insurance, iii. 350.
Mines, iii. 377, note.
Ministers, resident, i. 39.
Misnomer, as to corporations, ii.
292.

Misrepresentations on sales, ii.
485, 486.

to an insurer, iii. 282-286.
Missing vessel, iii. 301.
Missouri navigation laws, iii. 379.
Mistakes of law in contracts, ii.
477.491.

of facts, ii. 492.
Mississippi codes, ii. 428.

river subject to common law
rules, iii. 428.
Mobilia personam sequuntur, ii. 67.
429, iv. 513.
Money paid by mistake, ii. 491.
Moneys, power of appropriation
by congress, i. 394.
Monopolies, in general, ii. 9, 10.
by steamboats, i. 432-438.
by charters, ii. 271.
Month in law, iv. 95, note.
Monuments, iv. 466.
More, Sir Thomas, i. 491.
Morris, Robert, his services, i .

146-148, 190, 191.

of reversions to raise portions,
iv. 149.

by deposit of deeds, iv. 150.
equitable, iv. 152.

interest of mortgagee, iv. 164.
registry, iv. 168-174.
defeated by notice, iv. 169-
174.

tacking, iv. 175-178.
covering future advances, iv.
175, 176.

foreclosure, iv. 180.
concurrent remedies, iv. 183.
sale under a decree, iv. 184.
190--192.
opening biddings, iv. 192.
of chattels, ii. 531. iv. 138.
reconveyance, iv. 193.
Mortgagor, his rights at law, iv.
154-157.
rights in equity, iv. 158-

assistance to new states, i. 24.

to allies, i. 49, 50.
dominion over adjoining seas,
i. 26-31.
rights of commerce, i. 32.
of passage i. 34.

to navigate rivers, i. 35.
survive revolutions, i. 35.
general rights and duties as
neutrals, i. 135-158.
general rights and duties as
belligerents, i. 47—64. 90

i. 122, 123.

i. 117. 124.

goods in enemy's vessels, i.
117. 128. 132.

territory inviolable, i. 117.
restore captures within it, i.
121.

prizes in their ports, i. 123.
neutral flag, i. 124.
freight for enemy's property,
i. 125.
property in enemy's vessels, i.
128.

armed neutrality, i. 126–131.
restrictions on their trade, i.
135-158.

as to blockades, i. 143-152.
as to enemy's despatches, i.

152.

subject to search, i. 153-
156.
convoy, i. 154.
character by domicile, i. 75.
trade with enemy's colonies,
i. 81-85.
prisoners free in their ports,
i. 109.
transfers in transitu, i. 86.
ship documents, i. 157.
misconduct, i. 157, 158.
forfeit contraband, i. 142,

143.
New for old on insurance losses,
iii. 331. 339.
New-England colonies, union of, i.
202.

New-Jersey school system, ii. 196.
New-York statute as to fugitives,
i. 37.
New-York, its revised constitu-
tion, i. 295.
statute as to school system

and funds, ii. 199-201.
Revised Statutes do not act
upon vested rights, iv. 537,
538.
Next of kin, ii. 413. 422. iv. 412.
537.

571

Notice of blockade, i. 147.
dissolution of partner ship, iii.

66, 67.
to fix drawer, iii. 104-109.
to tenant to quit, iv. 112, 113.
to mortgagor to quit, iv. 156.
to obtain possession of rents,
iv. 164.
of a prior mortgage, iv. 169
-172.

by registry, iv. 174.
general doctrine of, iv. 179.
constructive, iv. 179.
to an agent, ii. 630.
to joint partners, iii. 104.
to the legal representative,
iii. 104.

to a purchaser, iv. 179.
arising from tenant's posses-
sion, iv. 179, note.
by carriers as to risks, ii. 601.
608.
when exclusive or inclusive,
i. 161, iv. 95.
Nottingham, Lord Ch., i. 492.
Novel disseisin abolished in New-
York, iii. 419.
Nuisances, power to restrain, ii.
340.
as to navigable waters, iii.
411. 430. 432.
as to rail cars, ii. 340.
writ of nuisance in New-
York, iv. 71.

prescription as to nuisances,
iii. 443.
Nuncupative wills, iv. 517.

Opening of estates to let in after-
born children, iv. 205. 221,

note.

Ordinance of congress, 1787, for
the N. W. Territory, as to
descent of lands, iv. 375.
as to conveyances, iv. 452.
as to judicial tenure, i. 295.
as to religious freedom, ii. 35.
as to civil liberty and private
contracts, ii. 12.

as to education, ii. 197.
as to protection to the In-
dians, iii. 399.

as to right of U. S. to the
soil, i. 260.

as to taxing the lands of non-
residents, ii. 333.
as to navigable rivers, iii. 427.
as to slavery, ii. 252.
Ordinances of Louis XIV., iii. 15.
Oregon, i. 385.

Owners of vessels, when liable, iii.
133-138.
responsibility limited, ii. 605,
606. iii. 217, 218.
hiring to others, iii. 201-204.
Outstanding terms, iv. 86. 94.

Particeps criminis, ii. 467.
Partition of estates, iv. 364, 365.
fences, iii. 438.
and walls, iii. 438.
Partnership, nature and extent of,
iii. 23-30.
general and particular, iii. 30.
universal by the civil law, iii.
30.

dormant partners, iii. 31.
nominal partners, iii. 32.
no new partner without con-
sent, iii. 59.
with restricted responsibility,
iii. 34.

special partners, iii. 34.
interest of each partner, iii.
36, 37.
not entitled to pay for his la-
bour, iii. 25.
previous debts, iii. 36.
in land, iii. 28. 37-39.
among ship-owners, iii. 39, 40.
power of each partner to bind
the firm, iii. 40-51.
over the stock in trade, iii. 44.
one cannot bind to guaranty,

iii. 46.
nor by deed, except specially,
iii. 47-49.
may release a debt, iii. 48.
acknowledge a debt, iii. 49—

51.
liable for injury by a servant
of the concern, iii. 52.
fiduciary duties, iii. 51.
dissolution by voluntary act,

iii. 53.

death, iii. 55.
insanity, iii. 58.
bankruptcy, iii. 58.
judicial decree, iiì. 60.
inability to act, iii. 62.
effect of it, iii. 62-66.
power and duty of surviving
partner, iii. 63.
notice of dissolution, iii. 66, 67.
power of a retiring partner,

63.

payments from partnership
funds, iii. 64, 65.
continued by executors, iii.
33. 56, 57.
effect of discharge of one
partner, under an insolvent
act, iii. 60.

Part performance of a parol con-
tract, as to land, iv. 451.
of personal contracts, ii. 258.
509.

Party to a suit, who is, i. 323.
when a state is interested, i.
323. 350, 351.

Party walls, iii. 437.
digging adjoining them, iii.
437, 438.

Passage in transitu over foreign
territory, i. 34.
Passengers in stages, steamboats,
&c., ii. 601.
Passport in war, i. 157. 162, 163.
violation of it, i. 182.
Passport of an enemy, i. 85.
Pasture, common of, iii. 404-408.
418.
Patent rights, jurisdiction of, i.
381. ii. 368.

security by law, ii. 366-372.
foreign law as to patents, ii.
372, note.
Patents for lands, their force, iii.
378.

Pawn, ii. 577-585. iv. 138-141.
Payment on sales of goods, ii. 492

their effects, i. 168.

when they take effect, i. 169.
-174.
Peere Williams' Reports, i. 493.
Peers, trial by, ii. 13.
Penitentiary system, ii. 14.
Pennsylvania school system, ii.

196.
Performance of contracts, ii. 471
-477. 487. iv. 451.
Perkins' Treatise, i. 504.
Per aversionem, ii. 496. iv. 467.
Perils in a policy, iii. 291.

acts of government, iii. 291.
interdiction of trade, iii. 293.
losses not casus fortuiti, iii.

300.
must be direct and not remote,
iii. 302. 306.

by violence, iii. 303.
arrest when not casus fortui-
tus, iii. 304.

by fire, iii. 304.

barratry, iii. 304, 305.
Permissive waste, iv. 81.
Per my et per tout, iv. 359, 360.
Per stirpes, ii. 425. iv. 375. 391.
Per capita, ii. 425. iv. 375. 391.

Perpetuities, iv. 264. 266, 267.
Personal security, ii. 12-16.

reputation, ii. 16—26.
liberty, ii. 26-32.
statutes, ii. 456.
property, ii. 341.

537.

when no claimant, iv. 426.
property in trust, ii. 531.

Petitory suits, i. 371.
Pews, right in, iii. 402.
Pignus, iv. 138.

Pilot, when requisite, iii. 175.
Pilotage, jurisdiction of, iii. 176,
Piracy defined, i. 188.

note.

punished by all nations, i. 184.
186.
U. S. laws concerning it, i.
185-188,

plea of auterfois acquit, i.
188.

cruising by citizens against
their country, i. 100. 188.

191.