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CARRIERS OF GOODS,

termination of extraordinary liability of carrier of
freight, 304.

modification of carrier's extraordinary liability
depending, on the nature of the consignment,

806.

modification of carrier's extraordinary liability by
usage or contract, 308.

CARRIERS OF PASSENGERS,

stipulation against liability in a free pass will not
bar action by passengers, 252.

limitation of carrier's liability for injuries to pas
sengers, 253.

reasonableness of time limits in railroad tickets,

302.

CAVEAT EMPTOR,

application of rule where vendee has opportunity
to inform himself, 281.

CEMETERIES,

right of municipality to prohibit or restrict estab
Hishment of cemeteries or right of burial within
certain limits, 50.

CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL,

practical features of the Central Law Journal, 401.
CHARITIES,

torts of charitable institutions maintained by tax-
ation, 62.

exemption from taxation of property used partly
for religious services and partly, as a source of
revenue, 183.

the non-liability of charitable institutions for neg.
ligence causing personal injuries or death, 224.
CHILDREN,

right of action for wrongful death of unborn child,
382.

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combinations for immoral purposes, as, to over-
throw society or government, 241.
CONSTITUTION,

does the United States constitution inhibit state
laws limiting hours of private daily employment
384.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. See COMMERCE.

revocation of physician's licenses by state
board, 3.

constitutionality of amendment to the Missouri
constitution taxing mortgages, 41.

the constitutional protection of the obligation of
contracts, 44.

subsequent laws impairing the obligation of con-
tracts, 47.

prohibition of burial within city limits as an exer.
cise of the police power, 48.

constitutionality of statute authorizing the inspec-
tion of malt liquors, 81.

criticism of insular tariff cases, 181.
special taxation of abutting property for street
improvements an infringement of property
rights, 261.

contemporaneous construction of constitutions,

272.

validity of assessments for street improvements
when in substantial excess of benefits, 281.
quarantine laws as regulations of interstate com-
merce, 291.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-Continued.

state tax on peddlers and drummers as affecting
interstate commerce, 324.

cruel and unusual punishment, 461.

power of state to forbid foreign corporations from
doing business in its territory, 462.

CONTEMPT,

publication of judicial proceedings constituting
contempt of court, 161.

failure to obey invalid order of court, 189.
jurisdiction of courts to punish for contempt, 193.
newspaper comment on pending cases, 216.

power to punish for contempt where other reme-
dies exist, 312.

tampering with witnesses and jurors as contempt
of court, 311.

what is misconduct "in presence of" court, 312.
CONTRACTS,

forbearance as a consideration, 7.

the constitutional protection of the obligation of
contracts, 44.

contracts for future delivery, 61.

mutuality as the essence of contract, 134.

effort of construing together several contempora-
neous contracts, 166.

anticipatory notice of breach of contract, 202.
estoppel as a species of contract, 207.
enforcement of contracts based on executory con-
sideration, 211.

contracts based on mutual promises and executory
considerations, 212.

power of one party to executory contract to stop
its performance without the consent of the other,
247.

contracts in restraint of trade, 343.

CONVERSION,

liability of agent, auctioneer or intermeddler with-
out authority, 481.

CORPORATIONS, '

issue of stock for property, 2.

majority stockholders as trustees, 42.

limitation of actions against stockholders, 43.
limitation on right of corporation to amend or re-
peal by-laws impairing obligations with its stock-
holders, 83.

corporation law of South Dakota, 92.
right of officers to compensation, 110.

right of directors of a corporation to compensation
for services, 113.

right of stockholders to combine to control the
corporation, 163.

statute imposing individual liability on stock.
holders not a penalty, 165.

Hability of stockholders on unpaid subscriptions
for stock, 181.

right of successive owners of stock to dividends,

203.

Arizona's new corporation law, 214.

right of corporation to sell its assets to another
company in fraud of its creditors, 223.
right of receiver to sue on subscription cancelled
by insolvent corporations, 244.

personal action of shareholders against directors
for fraud and negligence, 263.

value of mining property taken in payment of cap-
ital stock, 348.

power of a state to restrict or forbid the doing
business within its territory by a foreign corpo-
ration, 462.

foreign corporations not entitled to the privileges
and immunities of citizens, or domestic corpora-
tions, 464.

criminal liability of corporations in England, 489.
COUNTIES,

liability for torts of county poor farms, 65.
COURTS,

holding justice court on the sidewalk, 480.

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HOSPITALS,

liability of city hospitals for negligence, 63.
liability of privately endowed charity hospitals
for negligence causing personal injuries or
death, 226.

HUMORS OF THE LAW, 53, 73, 94, 135, 175, 216, 275, 295,
313, 333, 353, 414, 451, 471.

HUSBAND AND WIFE,

abstention by a husband from the exercise of his
marital rights constituting matrimonial deser.
tion, 4.

gift of wife to husband under married women's
acts, 104.

validity of agreements for separation, 146.
construction of "family expense statutes" destroy.
ing the exemption of heads of families against
creditors furnishing necessaries, 222.
duty of wife to follow domicile of husband, 264.
liability of husband for crime of the wife, 323.
effect of married women's acts on wife's con-
tract, 441.

secret conveyances by wife or husband in contem-
plation of marriage, 449.

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LABOR,

application of the "alien contract labor laws" of
the United States, 363.

does the United (States constitution inhibit state
laws limiting hours of private daily employment,
384.

LABORATORIES,

psycho-physical laboratories, 321.

LANDLORD AND TENANT,

liability of landlord for defective condition of
premises, 246.

failure of "cropper" tenant to comply with con-
tract, 302.

LARCENY,

larceny by keeping what was innocently gotten,
460.

LAW AND LAWYERS,

literature and the bar, 33.

the lawyers' vacation, 113.

large fees to great lawyers, 115.

twenty fourth annual meeting of the American Bar
Association, 141.

women as lawyers, 195, 273.

universal congress of lawyers, 195.

the altrinistic negligence case lawyer, 214.
some large fees of lawyers, 214.
statistics of lawyers in Iowa, 216.

specialism in the law, 255.

a unique petition in a suit by a brass band for po-
litical services, 273.

the bible in a lawyer's library, 293.
lawyer as poet, 373.

is it permissible for a lawyer to call a woman a
liar, 392.

the law of China, 432.

"ambulance chasing" as an evil, 459.

LAW BOOKS,

an era in law publishing, 341.

Book Reviews, Reports and Digests,

American Digest, Vol. 1900, B., 12.
American State Reports, Vol. 78, 53.

Index Digest New York Appeals Reports, 93.
American Bankruptcy Reports, Vol. 5, 156.
American State Reports, Vol. 79, 238; Vol. 80, 414.
American Digest, Vol. 1901 A., 433.

Book Reviews, Text Books,

Collier on Civil Service, 53.

Brandenburg on Bankruptcy, (2d Ed.), 135.

Greene on the Tax Law of New York, 175.

McCandless' Outline of the Law of Real Property,

275.

Hirsch's Tabulated Digest of Divorce Laws of the
United States, 275.

Williams on Municipal Liability for Tort, 294.
Burdick on Sales, 294.

Hughes on Admiralty, 313.

Harriman on Contracts, 313.

Eaton on Equity, 333.

Bates on Federal Equity Procedure, 353.

Spelling on Extraordinary Remedies, 393.

Waple's Parliamentary Practice, 393.

Abbett's Brief on the Facts, 451.

Watson on Damages for Personal Injuries, 471.

Bishop's Directions and Forms, 490.

LETTERS,

damages for retention of letters delivered by mis.
take, 323.

LIBEL AND SLANDER,

publication by dictation to stenographer, 32.

what constitutes sufficient publication in cases of
slander and libel, 32.

LICENSE,

recovery of compensation for services performed
without a license, 203.

LIENS,

a purchaser's lien for deposit, 460.

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presumption of widow of 56 being past child-bear-
ing, 202.

secret conveyance by wife or husband in contem-
plation of marriage, 449.

MASTER AND SERVANT,

liability of master for acts of servant within the
scope of his employment, 82.

exception to rule of respondeat superior in cases
of negligence of servants of charitable institu-
tions, 229.

liability of master for acts of ill-tempered over-
seer, 262.1

malicious interference of third person resulting in
discharge of servant, 381.

right of discharged servant to "clearance," 381.
MECHANICS' LIENS,

constitutionality of mechanics' lien law, 163.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE,

hypnotism as an excuse for crime, 115.

MINES AND MINING,

value of mining property taken in payment for
capital stock of corporation, 343.

effect of judgment liens on unpatented mining
claims, 362.

MISTAKE,

mutual mistake of law, 22.

MONOPOLIES,

contracts in restraint of trade, 343.

MORTGAGES,

right of foreclosure of share certificates on deposit,

2.

constitutionality of taxation of mortgages, 41.
adverse possession of grantee under foreclosure
sale, 82.

right of mortgagee to foreclose after death of
mortgagor, 242.

venue in foreclosure suits, 403.

suit foreclosure a transitory proceeding, 403.
venue of suit involving mortgages in more than
one county, 407.

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS,

requiring continuous ringing of bell on street cars,
an unreasonable ordinance, 23.

right to prohibit or restrict establishment of
cemeteries or right of, burial within certain
limits, 50.

lability for torts of city hospital, asylum or other

charitable institutions, 63.

reasons and scope of liability for defective high-
ways, 123.

duty to keep streets in repair belongs to city and
cannot be shifted, 125.

responsibility for defective streets is limited to
highways opened or in use, 126.

liability for nuisances on the highway and objects
calculated to frighten'animals, 127.
authority of municipalities over telephone, tele.

graph and electric companies in ordering the re-
moval of poles or other obstructions, 236.

NAME,

what's in a name, 274.

NEGLIGENCE,

the non-liability of charitable and eleemosynary
institutions for negligence causing personal in-
juries or death, 224.

failure to ring|bell origive other statutory signals
at crossing, as negligence per se, 243.

owner of ditch on public highway must keep it
safe, 468.

NEWSPAPERS,

publication of judicial proceedings constituting
contempt of court, 161.

suppression of immoral publications, 241.
NEW TRIAL,

remarks of counsel as reversible error in civil
cases, 85.

objections andļexceptions of, counsel to remark of
opponent, 86.

rulings and instructions of trial judge on improper
remarks of counsel, 86.

improper remarks of counsel not causing prejudice
will not reverse, 89.

reopening of case after judgment, 202.
NUISANCE,

the Chicago smoke nuisance ordinance as a regu.
lation of interstate commerce, 443.

forcible abatement of common nuisance by indi-
viduals, a misdemeanor, 485.

right of individual to abate a nuisance, 487.
OHIO RIVER,

jurisdiction over the main body of the Ohio river,
142.

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SUMPTUARY LAWS,

sumptuary legislation under guise of the police
power, 221.

SURETIES AND SURETYSHIP,

contract of third person to indemnify sureties
against loss on account of surety obligation, 141.
SURVIVORSHIP,

distribution of proceeds of insurance policy, 184.
TAXATION,

constitutionality of mortgage taxation, 41.
change in war revenue taxes, 52.

seat in the New York stock exchange taxable as
personalty, 102.

exemption of property used partly for religious
services and partly as a source of revenue, 183.
taxation of intangible personal property, 221.
special taxation of abutting property for street im-
provements an infringement of property rights,

261.

taxation of personal property, 274.

right of state to tax vessels registered in foreign
port, but operating in the taxing state, 282.
taxation must be for a public purpose, 363.
taxation of evidences of debt-a suggestion, 490.
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONES,

liability of telegraph companies for error or delay
in transmission or delivery, 4.

right of municipality to arbitrarily order the re-
moval of poles and wires, 232.

right of telephone company to erect poles and
wires in a city under the general laws of a state,
232.

right to limit liability, 283.

pulations in telegraph blanks, 283.

liability of telegraph companies for improper de-
liver of messages, 401.

THREATS,

maliciously injuring trade of another by threats,
101.

TORTS,

torts of charitable institutions maintained by tax-
ation, 62.

TRADE MARKS, NAMES AND LABELS,

geographical names as trade labels, 101.

TREASON,

attempt to take the life of the president as trea-
son, 321.

TRIAL AND PROCEDURE,

value of oral argument, 81.

remarks of counsel as reversible error in civil
cases, 85.

objections and exceptions of counsel to remarks of
opponent, 86.

a brief against the unanimity rule in jury trials,
173.

the examination of witnesses, 174.
re-opening of case after judgment, 202.
justices with a blas, 215.

cross-examination of witnesses, 350.

improper remarks of trial judge, 402.

instructions to the jury as to the effect of proof of a
witness' insanity upon his testimony, 479.

TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES,

construction of precatory trusts, 204.

merger of legal and equitable estates when legal
and equitable interest becomes vested in same
person, 262.

UNFAIR TRADE,

maliciously injuring trade of another by threats or
inducements, 101.

maliciously inducing one's customers to quit trad.
ing with him, 302.

USURY,

penalty against national banks for taking usury,

409.

when action for penalty against national bank ac-
crues, 409.

application of payment under usury laws, 413.

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