The United States Business Man's Law Cabinet , 7 books bound together (1868)

Description: Butts, I. R. The United States Business Man's Law Cabinet, containing Practical Forms, and Commercial and Domestic Laws applicable to almost every possible circumstance and situation in which persons can be placed in the ordinary occurrences of trade and social life. Boston: I. R. Butts & Co., 1868. Eleventh Edition. [10806] Full leather binding with a red leather spine title label in gilt, some fraying at the top of the backstrip, front joint fine, back joint cracked about one half, but the inside end paper hinge is still strong and the board is not in present danger of detaching. 7 3/4 x 5 inches, several titles bound together with their own title pages and page numbers, see list below. The text bock is tight, the text is clean and very good. Good. Hardcover. The volume contains: The Business Man's Assistant, and Ready Reckoner, for the use of Merchants, Mechanics, and Farmers; consisting of Legal Forms & Instructions indispensable in Business Transactions; and a great variety of useful tables. 132 pp. The Trader's Guide, and Business Man's Legal Companion, containing The Laws of Trade; of Bills of Exchange and Notes; of Contracts and Agreements; the Mode of doing Business with Banks; Remedies for the Recovery of Debts. Defence of Debtor; Forms of Affidavits, and Depositions; The Laws in Relation to Trustee Process, Limitation of Actions, Interest, Usury, Insolvency, Payments, Acknowledgement of Debt, Arbitration by Reference, Replevin, Set-Off, Husband's and Wife's Interest in Real and Personal Estate, and Rights of Married Women in Relation to Property, Mechanic's Lien Laws, and Supplements containing late Amendments and Additional Laws. 138 pp. plus 30 pp. Supplement. Improved Edition of the Landlord's and Tenant's Assistant, containing The Legal Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Landlords and Tenants; the Rules of Law on the Subject of Division Fences - Partition Walls - Nuisances - Ancient Lights - Highways - Private Ways - Running Water, &c.; and a Selection of Leases, Agreements, Assignments of Do., Surrenders of Do., Landlord's and Tenant's Notices to Quit, &c.; with the Statute Laws of the States in relation to Tenancies, Holding Over, Collecting Rent, Notices to Quit, and Ejectment. 124 pp. The Merchant's Assistant and Common Carrier's Guide: containing the Liabilities of Ship-Owners, Shipmasters, Railroad Companies, Owners of Steamboats, Ferrymen, Canal-boatmen, Express-men, Stage-coachmen, Hackmen, Cabmen, Truckmen, Carmen, Handcartmen; and the Laws relating to Marine & Inland Insurance, Consignor & Consignee, Collisions, Charter-Parties, Freight, Bills of Lading, Bottomry & Respondentia, Delivery of Goods, Demurrage, &c. Also, Forms for Adjusting General Average, Surveys of Ship, Furniture, and Goods, Notice of Abandonment, Charter-party, Protests of Ships, Steamboats, &c. Boatman's Wages Tables, &c. 120 pp. Directions and Forms for the Execution and Acknowledgment of Deeds to be Used or Recorded in other States. Duties and Liabilities of Executors and Administrators. 120 pp. Laws of the Sea. The Rights of Seamen, Coaster's & Fisherman's Guide, and Master's and Mate's Manual, comprising The Rights, Duties, and Liabilities of Shipmasters...of Mates...of Coasters...of Fishermen...of Seamen; The Emigrant Passenger Law of 1855; The U. States Navy Ration Scale, with substitutes; Scale for Victualling Merchant Vessels; Tables for Calculating Seamen's Wages. 110 pp. Addenda. Commercial Forms and Explanation of Terms used in Law, Trade and Finance. 24 pp. Isaac Ridler Butts (1796-1882), b. Boston, Mass.; d. Chelsea, Mass., Boston printer and publisher. Isaac R. Butts and Co. were for some time the printers for the American Unitarian Association. His obituary placed his birth year as 1796; most references say 1795.

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