ON LAW. ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. WITH REFERENCES TO THE MOST APPROVED AUTHORITIES. BY ASA KINNE. " VOLUME I FOURTH EDITION. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY COLLINS, KEESE & CO., 254 PEARL ST., WILLIAM A. GOULD & CO., 104 STATE STREET, ALBANY. 1843. Т K62319 1843 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, that on the eighth day of June, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine Asa Kiune of the said District, deposited in this office the title of a book, the title of which is in the words following: "Questions and Answers on Law, alphabetically arranged, with references to the most approved authorities; by Asa Kinne:" the right whereof he claims as author. In conformity with an Act of Congress, entitled "An act to amend the several acts respecting Copyrights." EDM. J. LEE, Clerk of the District. In testimony that the foregoing is a true copy from the record in my office, I, Edmund J. Lee. Clerk of the District Court of the District of Columbia, hereto set my hand and the seal of said court, this eighth day of June, 1839. EDM. J. LEE, D. C. D. C Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by Asa Kinne, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia. Entered according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by Asa Kinne, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by Asa Kinne, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Exchange Conn. State PREFACE. IN presenting the following pages to the public, the author deems it proper to observe, that they are not supposed by him to be perfect in their design, or free from many errors in their execution. The notes from which they are made up, with the exception of some of the cases and authorities, were not collected with a view to publication, but were accumulated during the course of several years' research and ordinary business. In 1839, a few were printed for the purpose of reducing some loose slips to a more convenient compass, some copies of which came to the hands of the profession, and with much liberality were favorably received, which induced the author to believe that a more copious collection, with a more orderly arrangement, might be deemed of some utility; acting upon that belief, he devoted his leisure time to arranging and revising a portion of his notes, which has resulted in the present volume. Much care has been taken to support the rules laid down in the answers, not only by the case or book from which an answer may have been extracted, but also by citing numerous other cases governed by the same or analogous principles; this it is thought may be of some utility in enabling the inquirer to consult a number of cases, without being obliged to ransack a whole library to find them. In revising the notes many books both foreign and domestic have been consulted, but more especially the reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, and those rich repositories of legal learning, the works of our two distinguished American jurists, Mr. Chancellor Kent, and Mr. Justice Story, to whom a hearty acknowledgment is returned for the free use which we have made of their labors. It may be proper further to state, that the author purposes to continue this compilation through the cycle of the alphabet, so soon as his health and other duties give him time to arrange the manuscript now on hand. |