a gentleman in New York telegraphed to a Philadelphia florist, "Send me two hand bouquets, very handsome, one of five and one of ten dollars." The message reached Philadelphia, "Send me two hund bouquets," which the operator wrote “ hundred ;” and before the unfortunate florist got word of the error, he had purchased costly flowers in great quantity, which withered on his hands. He was considered to be entitled to recover compensation for his loss from the company.*
A Chicago house telegraphed to an Oswego house desiring them to send five thousand sacks of salt, but the operator who wrote out the message substituted "casks" for "sacks." A sack is about fourteen pounds, and a cask about three hundred and twenty, hence the erroneous message led to chartering a vessel, and sending an immense quantity of salt, which was ultimately sold at a great loss. The company was adjudged liable.†—In a case in New York, a firm at Washington who made a business of dealing in New York stocks telegraphed to their brokers in New York, "If we have any old Southern on hand, sell same before Board. Buy five Hudson at Board." This meant, according to the course of business, Sell our Michigan Southern Railroad stock, and buy five hundred shares of Hudson River Railroad stock. But the operator wrote "hundred" instead of "Hudson;" hence the brokers sold all the Michigan Southern stock of their Washington correspondents before the Board met, and at the Board bought five hundred shares of the same stock. Michigan Southern went down, and Hudson River went up. And the court decided that the Washington people could recover both what they lost on the five hundred shares of Michigan Southern, and what they would have made on five hundred shares of Hudson River.t
*N. Y., &c., Tel. Co. v. Dryburg, 35 Pa. St. 298; Allen Tel. Cas. 157. Leonard v. New York, &c., Tel. Co., 41 N. Y. 544.
Rittenhouse v. Independent Line Tel., 44 N. Y. 263; 1 Daly, 474.
ADMIRALTY.-Nature of the jurisdic- tion, 124. Extension to all navi- gable waters, 125. Title to beds of streams, 127.
It is confided to United States courts, 13. Jurisdiction of the Union over commerce, 102-107. ANIMAL.-Various views of value of animal life, 218. Remarkable ancient prosecutions of animals, 218. Transmigration of souls, 219. The view taken by the common law, 220. The dog-fight case, 220. Monkey arrested for assault, 222. Recent legislation in behalf of animals, 105, 224. Horses on the sidewalk, 278. Scared horses, 282. Elephants on their travels, 283, 284. Bees, 284. Dancing bears, 287. Find- ing live animals, 292. Trans- portation of live-stock by rail- road, 105, 398.
BAGGAGE.-What is baggage, 414. Liability for checked baggage, 416; for hand - baggage, 409, 416. Baggage expresses, 376. BANKRUPTCY.-Objects of a bank-
rupt law, 128. Nature and op- eration of the law of 1867, 129. BIGAMY.-The law of 1862 against
bigamy in the Territories, 135. Obstacles to its enforcement, 135, 136, 138. Blundering into bigamy, 142; by trusting a Utah divorce, 171, 172. BLUNDER.-Blundering into bigamy,
142, 171, 172. "I did not think it was loaded," 338. Drug- gists' blunders, 354. Blunders
in drawing one's own will, 363; in delivering things sent by ex- press, 374; in sending messages by telegraph, 426.
CALIFORNIA. -A Californian enter- prise, 31. The Chinese in Cali- fornia, 76-80, 87. The Cali- fornia land claims: how they arose, 132; the commission, 133. Adoption of the New York codes in California, 191, 192. CHINESE.-The Burlingame treaty, 76. Emigration under it, 77. Legislation by California, 79. Can Congress abrogate a treaty? 81. Further action in the courts, 85. Further action in Califor- nia, 87. CITIZEN.- Various meanings of the word, 39. The early significa- tion, 40. Subjects and citizens, 42. Citizenship of negroes, 43. The Fourteenth Amendment, 45. Citizenship and holding land, 46. Citizenship and suffrage, 47. Cit- izenship and holding office, 48. Citizenship of women and chil- dren, 49. Expatriation and nat- uralization, 50. The modern sig- nification of "citizen," 52. Civil rights, 54-62. Citizen- ship of Indians, 69; of corpora- tions, 263, 268.
CIVIL DAMAGE LAWS.- A striking instance, 208. General nature
of these laws, 209. How they operate in favor of wives, 211; or of other persons, 215. CIVIL RIGHTS.-What are the civil rights laws, 54. Property and
contracts of colored persons, 56. Mixed marriages, 57. Inns, con- veyances, and theatres,59. Mixed juries, 60.
Rights of married women, 146; of insane persons, 176. Sunday laws, 232. Right to bear arms, 333. Self-defence, 341. Pun- ishment of pupils, 357. CODE.-Nature of a code, 188. The New York codes, 189. Wide-
spread adoption of the codes, 191. General nature of the re- formed procedure, 192. The marriage of law and equity, 193. Death and burial of John Doe, 197. Abolition of forms of ac- tion, 199; and of special plead- ing, 203.
Difference between a code and following precedents, 21. Codes have not diminished libraries, 30. COLONY.-How the Union was formed
and the States were developed, 4. Sketch of colonial jurispru- dence, 32. COMMERCE.-Scope of the grant of power, 102. To what agencies
of commerce it extends, 103. Beginning and end of an act of commerce, 106.
Trade-mark laws not includ- ed, 116. Recommendation of the metric system, 122. Navigation, 124-126. Restrictions on the liquor traffic, 225; upon Sun- day business, 241; travel, 245; and newspapers, 250. Express business, 369. Railroad traffic, 381. Telegraphic communica- tion, 419.
CONGRESS. Its distinct powers, 8. What laws are "necessary and proper," 8. Creation of courts by, 13, 15. Legislation of, over civil rights, 54; over the Ind- ians, 63-75; over treaties, 81; over the Chinese, 85; over na- tional banks, 92-99; over com- merce, 102, 107; over trade- marks, 115. As to the metric
system, 122; as to bankrupt- cy, 128. Over California land claims, 133; over polygamy in Utah, 135; over Pacific railroads, 269.
CONSTITUTION.-General nature of a constitution, 1. State and na- tional organizations, 4. Theories of the Union, 4. State and na- tional powers, 7. The distinct powers of Congress, 8. What laws are "necessary and prop- er," 8. Legislative and judicial powers, 10.
Constitutional organization of courts, 12. Citizenship under
the Constitution, 39-53. Civil rights, 54-62. The commercial power, 102-107. It does not ex- tend to trade-marks, 116. The grant of admiralty jurisdiction, 124. Constitutionality of legis- lation over the Territories, 136; of civil damage laws, 207. Con- stitutional rights of corporations, 263-274. CORPORATION.-Blackstone's account of corporations, 256. The "Bub- ble companies," 257. Individual liability, 258. Liabilities of di- rectors, 259. Citizenship of cor- porations, 263. The claims of the insurance companies, 265. The Pacific railroads and the sinking-fund, 269. Taxing be- nevolent corporations, 271.
Can Congress grant a char- ter, 8. The free-banking sys- tem, 89. The national banking system, 92. Liability of gas companies for explosions, 306. Rights and liabilities of express companies, 369; of railroad com- panies, 381; of telegraph com- panies, 419.
COURT.-The United States courts, 12. The State courts, 14. Terri- torial courts, 15. English courts,
nize treaties, 81. How they re- gard the Chinese, 85. How they have settled the California land claims, 132. Why they have not suppressed polygamy in Utah, 135-139.
Course of the courts about conflicting marriage laws, 143. Under the new married-women's laws, 147-153. Respecting a wife's business and services, 154. Respecting crimes by wives, and marital coercion, 163. Respect- ing "bogus" divorces, 166–173; and divorce lawyers, 174. Re- specting the plea of insanity, 182. Conflict of law and equity courts, 193. Legal fictions, 197. How the courts regard animals, 220. What they consider to be a lot- tery, 225. How they regard and treat Sunday, 232-255; corpora- tions, 256; obstructions to roads or sidewalks, 275; lost things, or animals, 289; things falling, 301; explosions, 306; household affairs, 310; photographs, 328; using firearms, 333; physicians, 348; railroad companies, 381. CRUELTY. Various views of value of animal life, 218. The view taken by the common law, 220. The recent legislation, 224. Cruel punishments of school children, 357-362.
FINDING.-Lost goods, 289. Rewards, 291. Live animals, 292. FIREARMS.-The right to bear arms, 333. Carrying concealed weap- ons, 337. "I did not think it was loaded," 338. Shooting in self-defence, 341. Firearms as baggage, 415. FIREWORKS.-Restrictions on the right to use fireworks, 336. Sending explosives by express, 373. FIXTURE. -What are fixtures, 314. The sundial and statue, 316. FURNISHED APARTMENTS. Engaging apartments and flats, 319. What if in bad condition, 320, 321. The fire-escape, 323. Furnish- ing, 324. Delivering baggage at tenements, 376. FURNITURE. - Buying it on instal- ments, 324.
HIGHWAY.-Rule of the road, 275. Of the sidewalk, 279. Frightening horses, 282. Finding animals, 292. Letting things fall, 301. Discharging fireworks, 336. Ob- struction by loose telegraph- wires, 419. HOME.-Homestead exemption, 310.
Furnished apartments and "French flats," 318. Buying furniture on instalments, 324. HOUSE.-Homestead exemption, 310.
Mechanic's lien, 313. Fixtures, 314. Buying furniture on in- stalments, 324. HUSBAND.-Of Indian wife, 71. For- mer rights of husband over wife's property, 146. How the law now stands, 149. Husband
as wife's agent, 150. Right to METRIC SYSTEM.-How it was devised, wife's services, 154.
for her necessaries, 157. Marital coercion, 163. Divorce, 166-175. May sue under civil damage laws, 216. Wife's remedy for selling liquor to husband, 208- 215.
INDIANS.-No important decrease of Indians, 63. Tribes and treaties, 65. Indians as individuals, 67. Citizenship of Indians, 69. The "reservations" and "territory," 72. The outlook, 74. INSANE.-Who are the insane, 176. Kinds of insanity, 176. Degrees of insanity, 177. Going to the asylum, 179. The plea of insan- ity, 182.
LOTTERY.-History of the prohibition upon lotteries, 225.
What is a lottery, 226. Lottery correspond- ence in the mails, 230.
MARRIAGE.-Necessity of a ceremony, 141. Effect of removals, 143. Mock weddings, 144.
Mixed marriages, 57. Marriage with Indian, 71. Change of name by marriage, 112. Polygamy, 135. Married women, 146-165. Divorce, 166–175. Marriage of law and equity, 193. Operation of civil damage laws in favor of wives, 211. MARRIED WOMEN.-The old view, 156.
Nature of the change as to prop- erty, 147. How the law now stands, 149. An important quali- fication, 150. Business dealings, 154. Buying necessaries, 157. Dower and its decline, 160. Mar- ital coercion, 163.
Names of married women, 112. Polygamy, 135-139. Marriage, 141-145. Divorce, 166–175. Operation of civil damage laws in favor of wives, 211.
MECHANIC'S LIEN.-What it means,
119. Its practical advantages, 120. How it differs from the cental, 122.
NAME.-Names of the English courts, 16; of banks, 98. Using one's Own name, 109. Fictitious names, 112. Of weights and measures, 120. Of various forms of insanity, 177. Of books of statutes, 188. John Doe and Richard Roe, 197. NATIONAL BANK.-The free-banking system, 89. Advantages of a national system, 92. The pres- ent system summarized, 92. The tax on other circulation, 99. NAVIGATION.-Navigability of waters
now the test of admiralty juris- diction, 125; and of title to beds of streams, 127. National regulation of commerce, 102– 107. Sunday trips of steam- boats, 248.
NECESSARY.-What laws are "neces- sary and proper" to be passed by Congress, 8. What labor is necessary on Sunday, 235. Buy- ing "necessaries," by married women, 157. NEGRO.-Citizenship of negroes, 43. How affected by the Fourteenth Amendment, 45. What are the civil rights laws, 54. Property and contracts of negroes, 56. Mixed marriages, 57. Rights in inns, conveyances, and theatres, 59. Drawing negroes on the jury, 60. Negroes in the steam- boats, 104; or railroad cars, 404.
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