NEW EDITION-REVISED AND ENLARGED.

WELLS'

EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER,

AND

UNITED STATES FORM BOOK:

BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE IN ALL MATTERS OF LAW AND BUSINESS NEGOTIATIONS,

FOR EVERY STATE IN THE UNION;

CONTAINING LEGAL FORMS OF

Deeds, Mortgages, Leases, Affidavits, Depositions, Bonds, Orders, Contracts, Powers
of Attorney, Agreements, Assignments, Awards, Declarations, States of Demand,
Demands Letter of Credit, Arbitration Bonds, Partnership Articles, Re-
leases, Administrators' and Executors' Deeds and Instructions, Orders,
Wills, Codicils, Apprenticeship Indentures, Submissions, Land Joint-
ures, Tenants' and Landlords' Agreements, Receipts, Compo-
sition with Creditors, Oaths, Satisfaction of Mortgages.

ALSO CONTAINING

Pre-emption Laws, Patent Laws, with full Instructions to Inventors; Marriage
and Divorce, Custom House Regulations, Forms and Tariff of Duties
Liabilities of Common Carriers, Law of Partnership, Minors, Dower
Naturalization, &c., with_full and complete instructions for
proceeding, without Legal assistance, in suits and
business transactions of every description.

ALSO CONTAINING

State and Territorial Laws concerning Property exempt from Execution, Lien
Law, Law of Limitation, Law of Contract, Pedlers' License to sell
Goods, Legal Rates of Interest, Qualifications of Voters, &c., &c.

ALSO,

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES-SEALS OF EVERY STATE IN THE
UNION, GOLD and silver COIN TABLES, &c., &c., &c.

New-York:

D. W. EVANS & CO., PUBLISHERS

No. 677 BROADWAY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

JOHN G. WELLS,

Clark's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

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INTRODUCTORY.

THIS work has been prepared by an association of lawyers of well known standing and ability—and no pains or expense spared to make the work every way especially adapted to the wants of every business man, in every State in the Union.

The utility of a volume of this character is too obvious to need commendation. The design in its preparation has been to offer the professional man, the farmer, the mechanic, and the business man, comprehensive and reliable work, which will enable him to draw up any instrument in writing that may be required in the course of business, in a legal form; to furnish him with all such legal information as is usually called for in the various avocations of life · and to make a plain, common-sense work, that every body can understand, and which will enable any man or woman to be his or her own lawyer. To make such a work is no small task; but patience and industry are equal to every enterprise, no matter how difficult, and the result of our labor is in the present volume.

The City Wholesale Merchant,

Whose customers are scattered throughout the country, cannet safely give them credit unless he is familiar with the laws of the various States in which they reside, for

THE COLLECTION OF DEBTS, THE LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, THE LAW OF FRAUDS, THE KIND OF PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM ATTACHMENT, RATES OF INTEREST, PEDLERS' LICENSE TO SELL GOODS,

And the liberty granted by each State for dishonest men to betray the confidence of their creditors, all of which information is given in the present work.

The City Retailer,

Whose customers are at home, cannot safely, give them credit without being " posted up" on the legal 4 details o concerningɑfalse