Business law for business men : a reference book showing the laws of California for daily use in business affairs

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Introduction

My experience and observation during a busy life in the practice of law have served to demonstrate to me that much vexatious and expensive controversy, arising from a lack of knowledge of the laws of the State on matters of every-day business, might be avoided, if business men had the means of ascertaining at the moment wdiat their rights and liabilities would be.

Men usually go to a lawyer after a controversy has occurred, and seek a lawyer's advice, not to keep out of trouble, but to be extricated from it. The plan of this work is to so arrange and illustrate the laws of California pertaining to ordinary business affairs, and rights and obligations in many relations of life, that a busy man can turn immediately to the page and section and find the information he needs, before assuming a liability himself or attempting to enforce a right against others.

WHAT SUPREME COURT JUDGES SAY

JUDGE WALTER VAN DYKE.

State of California, Judicial Department Supreme Court, Chambers of Associate Justice Walter Van Dyke,

San Francisco.

A. J. Bledsoe, Esq., Attorney at Law,

L^kiah, Cal., Dear Sir: —

I have received a -copy of your book entitled "Business Law for Business ]\Ien," and you will please accept my thanks for the same. The book contains the code law of the State, conveniently arranged, bearing upon the most important subjects pertaining to business affairs, and cannot fail to be of great service to business men, for whose benefit

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it appears to have been specially intended, but will also prove to be very convenient and useful to the practicing lawyer. Very truly yours,

WALTER VAN DYKE.

JUDGE F. M. ANGELLOTTI.

State of California, Judicial Department, Supreme Court, Chamber of Associate Justice Frank M. Angellotti,

San Francisco.

A. J. Bledsoe, Esq., Dear Sir: —

I appreciate your courtesy in sending me a copy of your book, "Business Law for Business Men," and the limited examination I have been able to give it satisfies me that it is a very creditable work, containing much useful inform.ation. Yours very truly,

F. M. ANGELLOTTL

JUDGE LUCIEN SHAW.

State of California, Judicial Department, Supreme Court, Chamber of Associate Justice Lucien Shaw,

San Francisco.

Mr. A. J. Bledsoe,

Ukiah, Cal., Dear Sir: —

I have examined your ''Business Law for Business Men" with some care, and am very much pleased with it. It is concise, the style is clear, and the matter generally accurate and complete. It is the best work of the kind that I have seen. Yours very truly,

LUCIEN SHAW.

Index To Subjects

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Making of Contracts 33-44

Agreements for Sale 44-46

Sale of Personal Property 46-50

Installment Sales 50-54

Stoppage in Transit 54-56

Warranty of Personal Property 56-58

Auction Sales 58-60

Deposit of Personal Property 61, 62

Storage of Personal Property 62

Storage in W? --ehouses 62-66

Hotel Keepers and Lodging-house Keepers 66-74

Landlord and Tenant 74-81

Sale of Real Property 81-89

Employer and Employee 89-92

Master and Servant 92-94

Principal and Agent 94-i03

Wholesaler's Agents 103-108

Manufacturer's Agents 108-1 it

Commission Merchants 1 1 i-i 16

Real Estate Agents 1 16-139

Fire Insurance Contract 139-161

Fire Insurance Agents 161-168

Building Contracts 168-185

Mechanic's Liens 185-20(5

Logger's Lien 217-220

Architects 206-212

Liens for Salary and Wages 212, 213

Vendor's Lien 213-215

Liens on Personal Property 215-217

Lien of Persons Working on Threshing-machine 220, 221

Liens in Favor of Stallions, Jacks, and Bulls 221, 222

Damages for Breach of Contract 222-226

Partnership 226-252

Surveys of Land 252-268

Spaulding's J" able for Measurement of Logs 268-273

Division Fences 273-300

Rights and Liabilities of Professional Men — Physicians and

Surgeons 300-313

•Rights and Liabilities of Professional Men — Dentists 313, 314

Rights and Liabilities of Professional Men — Oculists 314, 315

Rights and Liabilities of Professional Men — Attorneys at Lav^. .315-317 Rights and Liabilities of Professional Men — Teachers in the

Public Schools ^ 3'^7-323

Searchers of Record 324-328

Notary Public 328-335

Carriers of Freight 335-342

Letters of Credit 342-345

Bills of Exchange ^. 345-352

Assignment for Benefit of Creditors 352-359

Collection of Bills and Accounts 359-369

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Promissory Notes 369-396

Mortgages 396-421

Attachments 421-429

Judgments and Executions 429-432

Last Wills and Testaments 432-441

Estray Law of California 441-445

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MAKING OF CONTRACTS.

-Business Contracts 33

-Parties to Contracts 33

-Consent of Parties to Contract 35

-When Consent Is Not Mutual 36

-Proposal of Contract, Acceptance and Revocation.... 36

-Objects of Contract 37

-Consideration of a Contract 37

-What Contracts May Be Verbal 38

-What Contracts Must Be in Writing 38

-Contracts against Public Policy 39

-Contracts in Restraint of Trade 39

-Sale of Good Will of a Business 40

-Alteration of Verbal Contract 41

-Alteration of Written Contract 41

-Express Contracts 41

-Implied Contracts '. . . 41

-Termination of Contracts 42

-Rescission of Contract 42

-Extinction of Written Contract by Cancellation 42

-Interpretation of Contracts 43

-Printed and Written Parts of Contract 44

-Time of Performance of Contract 44

-Place of Performance 44

AGREEMENTS FOR SALE.

-Kinds of Agreements for Sale 44

-Agreement to Sell Real Property '..45

-Agreement to Sell Personal Property 45

SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.

-When Goods Sold Must Be Delivered 46

-Where Delivery Must Be Made 46

-When Price of Goods Bought Must Be Paid 46

-Right to Inspect Goods before Acceptance 47

-Expense of Transportation 47

-Buyer's Directions as to Manner of Sending Things

-The Bulk Law 48

-Bill of Sale 49

-Form of Bill of Sale 49

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