Cases on Commercial Law: General Survey, Contracts, Agency, Bailments, Sales, Negotiable Paper, Partnerships, Corporations, Bankruptcy

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Alfred William Bays
Callaghan, 1923 - 1536 páginas
 

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Disaffirmance of minors voidable contracts a Disaffirmance
52
b Ratification
58
Tortious liability of minors in cases involving contracts
62
105
63
Other Parties Under Disability 44 Married women 45 Insane persons 46 Drunken persons 47 Aliens
66
Corporations
69
CHAPTER 8
70
Preliminary announcements intended to secure offers distinguished from offers 53 Offer indefinite
71
Duration of offer
77
Termination of offer by rejection
81
Termination of offer by destruction of subject matter
82
58 Termination by death and insanity of offeror or offeree 59 Revocation of offer 60 Contracts to keep offers open
85
65
116
Fraud in the inducement defined
130
Silence as fraudfacts not discoverable
140
Silence as fraudrelationships of trust and confidence
148
Undue influence definedits effect
156
CHAPTER 10
165
Consideration may consist in promise or
169
Compromise of disputed claim
190
Ratification by receiving benefits
208
Usurious contracts
210
Contracts tending to corrupt the public service
217
Judicial Remedies in Illegal Agreements
225
106
232
Certain kinds of contracts to be in writing
241
c What amounts to compliance with statute
260
The Parol Evidence Rule
273
PART II
296
PART III
311
PART II
315
Sale in writing oral or implied
317
CHAPTER 19
328
What constitutes express warranty
329
PART IV
336
DISCHARGE OF CONTRACTS BY OTHER MEANS THAN PERFORMANCE
352
177 In general
363
180 General rule
369
PART I
377
The principal and agent as one person
378
Enumeration of rights and remedies of buyer
385
CHAPTER 24
388
CONTRACTS
391
In general
395
Express ratification
407
CHAPTER 27
414
Agents right of compensation where he abandons serv
420
coscoscoscos 888888888888 888888888 421 Reference to mortgage given as security
421
Provision authorizing confession of judgment
422
Agent cannot take secret profits and benefits
427
Liability of Agent to Principal for Default of Third
434
227 Del credere agencies
440
General rule
441
548559
448
CHAPTER 30
466
General statement
491
When agent bound on other contract by form of
500
B Liability of Agent in Tort
508
By terms of original agreement
514
oscoscoscoscos
524
SUBDIVISION I
531
Kinds of bailments
537
Bailees lien 295 The pledge
550
CHAPTER 38
556
Innkeepers 298 Common carrier defined
557
Common carriers duty of indiscriminate service 300 Common carriers duty to transport goods safely
558
301 Common carriers duty to transport without delay 302 Freight and demurrage
559
CHAPTER 39
560
PART I
564
A Definitions and Distinctions 313 Definitions 314 Consideration called the price 315 Conditional sales defined 316 Sales distinguished from gifts
565
CHAPTER
568
Power to bind firm on negotiable paper
599
Ratification
605
338
610
CHAPTER 43
614
TITLE AND THIRD PERSONS 350 Attempted sale by one not owner in general A When True Owner Not Estopped to Assert Title 351 In general ...
651
B When True Owner Estopped to Assert Title Against Third 354 In general Persons 355 Allowing another to assert that he is owner 356 Clothing a...
656
When True Owner Prevented by Statute from Asserting 357 In general Title 358 Effect of retention by seller after sale 359 Conditional sales
659
Bulk sales acts
666
361 Factors acts 362 Chattel mortgages
667
Liability of stockholders for payment of stock for bene
676
267 Factors lien
681
391a The Uniform Conditional Sales
704
Refiling
710
Refiling or removal
712
391z Recovery of part payment
719
FORMATION OF CONTRACTS
739
PART I
751
CHAPTER 50
759
EXPRESSIONNEGOTIABLE FORM 1 FORMAL REQUISITES
760
268
770
Sum certain
776
Must be Payable on Demand or at a Fixed or Determin
785
Legislative jurisdiction of the subject of bankruptcy in the United States
793
Waiving benefit of exemption and similar laws 424 Effect of affixing seal 425 Omission of date 426 Antedating and postdating 427 Rules of constr...
806
CHAPTER 53
813
Delivery presumed in favor of holder in due course
815
Incomplete instrument
816
Delivery of complete instrument containing uncancelled spaces
818
CHAPTER 54
822
CHAPTER 55
824
CHAPTER 56
831
CHAPTER 57
835
Special indorsement
843
Blank indorsement 458 Qualified indorsement 459 Restrictive indorsement 460 Conditional indorsement
844
CHAPTER 58
848
1 In general
858
2 When demand paper overdue
859
3 Interest overdue installments overdue 4 Overdue paper sold in breach of trust
869
467 Indorsement requisite 468 Transferee of holder in due course as holder in due course 469 Burden of proof as to whether one is holder in due co...
876
470 Amount recoverable by holder in due course
879
A Defenses not Available Against Holder in Due Course
881
479
888
Fraud in execution
898
CHAPTER 61
920
B Presentment of Bill for Acceptance
930
CHAPTER 63
948
PART V
958
PART I
997
Auctioneers
1018
8x888888
1021
NAME CAPITAL AND PROPERTY
1028
Nature of partners interest in firm property
1038
Right of partner to deal openly with firm
1052
CHAPTER 73
1056
Liability of incoming partner
1079
a Where no judicial proceedings are in progress to distribute
1086
Equitable rules for distribution of assets of insolvent
1092
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
1102
Effect of death of partner
1113
CHAPTER 77
1121
Auctioneers defined
1131
PART I
1147
Corporate entity not allowed to defeat responsibility
1160
Corporations distinguished from partnerships
1167
Power of state to alter and repeal charters 653 Form of charterspecial statute 654 Form of chartercertificate under general law 655 Form of charteril...
1171
CHAPTER 82
1181
PART II
1187
The certificate of stock 669 The legal nature of shares of stock
1203
CHAPTER 84
1204
CHAPTER 85
1210
CHAPTER 86
1222
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS
1232
CHAPTER 88
1241
Definition and kinds
1265
PART III
1272
Powers of Directors
1284
CHAPTER 94
1289
CHAPTER 95
1316
tions
1326
TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES
1344
CHAPTER 101
1355
CHAPTER 103
1365
The courts that have bankruptcy jurisdiction 801 The territorial limits of the courts jurisdiction 802 Jurisdiction as determined by the location of the...
1374
Extent of jurisdiction over subject matter
1377
Jurisdiction of bankruptcy court to recover assets 806 Jurisdiction of state courts for that purpose 807 Summary proceedings in district court to reco...
1379
CHAPTER 105
1382
In general 812 Wage earners
1383
Persons engaged chiefly in farming or tilling the soil
1386
Occupation considered as of what date b Of corporations 815 In general 1 History of this section 2 Corporations which can file voluntary petitions 3...
1389
Corporations 817 Unincorporated companies Partners and partnerships 818 819 Minors 820 Insane persons 821 Estates of deceased persons 822 ...
1392
In Respect to Amount of Indebtedness 823 Voluntary bankruptcy 824 Involuntary bankruptcy
1401
In general CHAPTER 106
1402
Fraudulent transfers 829 Preferential payments or transfers
1407
Preferences secured through legal proceedings as acts of bankruptcy 831 General assignment for benefit of creditors as acts of bankruptcy
1414
Admission of insolvency and consent to bankruptcy
1415
CHAPTER 107
1416
CHAPTER 108
1428
Insurance policies
1445
Property held by bankrupt in trust or nature of trust 844 Property transferred or money paid as preference
1450
Fraudulent conveyances 846 Property held by bankrupt claimed by third persons 847 Property held by third person belonging to bankrupt
1460
Rights to
1461
Burdensome property 850 To what liens trustees title is subject
1464
CHAPTER 109
1470
853 In respect to whether due or not In respect to whether owing before or after petition filed 854 Claims based upon judgments 855 Fixed liabilitie...
1471
Unliquidated claims 1 When provable 860 Unliquidated claims 2 When not provable
1480
Fines B Proof and Allowance of Claims 862 How claims proved 863 Allowance of claims C Secured and Lien Claims 864 In general 865 The stand...
1481
Claims Having Priority 867 How a claim having priority differs from a secured claim 868 What claims have priority
1483
E Claims of Preferred Creditors 869 Preferred creditor must surrender preference
1486
How payable G Composition with Creditors
1490
Composition may be offered by bankrupt 872 Conditions of the composition
1492
When composition set aside H Set Offs 874 Right to set
1493
CHAPTER 110
1495
CHAPTER 111
1499
B Debts Not Dischargeable 886 In general 8888888 887 General rule 888 Debts not affected by discharge 889 New promise to
1500
Contract defined
1519
CHAPTER 7
1533

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Página 678 - Action for damages for non-acceptance of the goods. —(1) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods, the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. (2) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting, in the ordinary course of events, from the buyer's breach of contract.
Página 983 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Página 720 - Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any statute in that behalf, there is no implied warranty or condition as to the quality or fitness for any particular purpose of goods supplied under a contract of sale...
Página 580 - Any affirmation of fact or any promise by the seller relating to the goods is an express warranty if the natural tendency of such affirmation or promise is to induce the buyer to purchase the goods, and if the buyer purchases the goods relying thereon. No affirmation of the value of the goods, nor any statement purporting to be a statement of the seller's opinion only shall be construed as a warranty.
Página 988 - A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer.
Página 678 - Where there is an available market for the goods in question, the measure of damages is, in the absence of special circumstances, showing proximate damage of a greater amount, the difference between the contract price and the market or current price at the time or times when the goods ought to have been accepted. or, if no time was fixed for acceptance, then at the time of the refusal to accept.
Página 976 - And, in addition, he engages that on due presentment, it shall be accepted or paid, or both, as the case may be, according to its tenor, and that if it be dishonored, and the necessary proceedings on dishonor be duly taken, he will pay the amount thereof to the holder, or to any subsequent indorser who may be compelled to pay it.
Página 851 - That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Página 757 - An instrument to be negotiable must conform to the following requirements : — 1. It must be in writing and signed by the maker or drawer ; 2. Must contain an unconditional promise or order to pay a sum certain in money ; 3. Must be payable on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time; 4. Must be payable to order or to bearer ; and, 5. Where the instrument is addressed to a drawee, he must be named or otherwise indicated therein with reasonable certainty.
Página 848 - To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith.

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