Day-Book, Form of... Debt, Assignment of. Power of Attorney to Collect..... Maine, 162, New Hampshire, 167; Deeds 112 94 Exemption). Exemptions, Laws Regulating in-Maine, 250, 251 Fruit-Trees, Agreement for Sale of....... 18 Special Laws of. Indiana, Map of.......... .810, 311 ....309 ...304 .321 64 Special Laws of... Iowa, Map of............... 65 Special Laws of..... 66 Interest... Insurance Policy, Assigninent of. Table of, at Six per cent... .352 69 Table of, at Seven per cent... .353 ..354 Quii-Claim, by Husband and Wife... 66 Of Trust.. Bond for. Deeds, Laws Regulating in-Maine, 163; Delaware, Map of............ Special Laws of... Table of Banking and Equation ..353 Interest, Laws Regulating Rates of, in- 220, 221 219 Depositions.. Dower (see Married Women, Rights of). 82 Assignment of 83 Release of ..... Right of (see the respective States). Special Laws of........ ...283 Drafts.. 40 45 Agreement to Cultivate on Shares.... 17 Letter of Credit and of License, Form of 94 92 Ledger, Form of.... Special Laws of. ..180 .351 Measures and Weights .355 • .127 .357 123 .354 122 | Merchandise, Order for ...103 ... .296, 297 .295 .153 .122 260, 261 Lien, Mechanics', Laws Regulating in- Louisiana, Map of... Special Laws of..... Manufacturing, Agreement for.... Maps of the States:-Maine, 156; New Marriage, Form of. Certificate, Form of.. Michigan, Map of..... Special Laws of.. Military Bounty Lands.. Special Laws of. Missouri, Map of Special Laws of On Lease, with Covenant to Insure.. 79 Satisfaction of, by Corporation. Assignment of......... Endorsement of Assignment on.... Of Vessel, to be recorded. .116 1:17 28 ..132 Naturalization, Regulations for..........18$ Affidavit to prove Intention Declaration of lutention ..133 Affidavit of one who arrived under 18..134 .134 .134 135 ..185 Proof of Residence, &c..... Special Laws of.......... 164, 165 .......166 206, 207 ..208 .334 Negotiable by Endorsement On demand with Interest, not Nego- 101 .101 .288, 289 O. Map of . . . . . . . ........... For Lands subject, before Sept.,.1841..151 For Lands subject, since Sept., 1841..151 Affidavit of Claimant..... Affidavit, where Claimant Dies.... Promissory Notes (see Notes, Promisso- 98. Proxy, Power to vote by, Form of.......111 Rate of Interest (see Interest, Rate of). In Full...... On Account. 6 0:0 103 ...103 ....104 For Money paid by a Third Person..104 Helseses. 104 Devising Property to Trustees for Spe- cial Purposes Wood, Agreement to sell and deliver.... 15 114 Workman, Agreement for Hire of........ W .119 Short Form of... .119 ...120 THE AMERICAN LAWYER. AGREEMENTS. An agreement or contract is the mutual consent of two or more persons respecting anything done or to be done. When reduced to writing, the memorandum or articles containing the agreement, signed by the parties thereto, is usually called an agreement. It is advisable, in all cases, to reduce the agreements and contracts of parties to writing; not only because, in case of dispute, the instrument is a more reliable and satisfactory source of evidence than the memory of witnesses, but because, by statute, many agreements are void unless put into writing and subscribed by the party to be charged. But care must be taken to put the whole and exact contract in writing, as verbal evidence will not be admitted to alter or vary a written instrument. If erasures or interiineations are made, the fact should be stated on the paper, that they were so done before the parties signed it. In all agreements or contracts there must be a consideration flowing from the promisor to the promisee, such as the payment of money, the sale and delivery of property- something whereby the promisee is benefited or the promisor put to inconvenience; and this consideration should be expressed. Contracts which militate against the public good can not be enforced-as a contract not to exercise one's trade or calling at all, a contract to erect a public nuisance, &c. It is understood, in every contract for work or labor, that it shall be executed in a suitable and workmanlike manner, whether it is so expressed in the contract or not. If it is desired by both parties to an agreement to waive the performance of a part of it, let it be so endorsed on the back of the agreement, and signed by the party who so consents to waive it. The law of the state where the contract is made regulates the construction of the contract; the law of the state where the contract is sought to be enforced regulates the remedy. Amounts and dates should always be written out, and not expressed in figures: thus, two thousand dollars, instead of $2,000. The words in italics, and names in capitals, are merely inserted to show how the forms may be filled out. They should be always omitted in drawing a paper, and such words inserted as correspond with the facts in hand, and the actua. agreement of the parties. Fraud destroys every contract into which it enters. No. 1.-General Form of Agreement. This Agreement, made this first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, between JOHN DOE, of the village of Black Rock, in the county of Erie, and state of New York, of the first part, and RICHARD ROE, of the city of Buffalo, in said county and state, of the second part- * Witnesseth, that the said JOHN DOE, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the second part hereinafter contained, doth covenant and agree to and with the said RICHARD ROE, that [here insert the agreement on the part of John Doe]. And the said RICHARD ROE, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the first part, doth covenant * To avoid repetition, we have referred in the succeeding forms to certain numbers, for the introductory matter of the form. For example, in No. 5, the first part of No. 1 is to be copied in that form as far as the star. |