INDEX. Abandonment, cause of divorce, 260, | Accounts- 265, 266 in England, 60 to 62 in Virginia, 62 to 67 of guardians, 444 to 470 general doctrine of, as to guardians, particulars, 445 to 450 ward's estate in hand, 445-'6 losses by co-guardian's default, means to compel prompt and accu- rate settlement, 450 to 454 annual settlement, 452 to 454 disbursements, 456-'7 guardian's own examination, production of books and vouch- proceedings by ward, and limi- form of stating, 464 to 470 Actions, by and against husband and by husband and wife, 347 to 357 wife may sue alone, 353 to 354 consequences of mistake in parties, against husband and wife, 357 to 364 358-'9 Actions- contracts, 558; torts, 558 to 560 by and against infants, 473 to 476 Accusation, cause and nature demand- self, not compellable, 63-'4 Adultery, divorce for, 255-'6, 264 not permitted by deeds of separation, 289 Advowsons, 151 Affinity, bar to marriage, 235, 240 cause of divorce, 258, 262 want of, cause of divorce, 259, 261-'2 for money received, 198, 199 unlawful appropriation of master's rendering accounts, 200 dealing for his own benefit with sub- how strangers affected by relation, 200 See Master & Servant. mutual defence and maintenance of seducing away servants, and torts to contracts by agent, 202 to 217 liability of, on contracts as agents, 212 contract in agent's own name, 212 government agent, 212–'13 no principal disclosed, 214-'15 completion of business, 227 of government, government's liability superior government officer not liable infant, acts of, 485 of corporations, 541 to 547 power to appoint, and who may be, acts of, when obligatory, 542-3, 545 mode, and proof of constituting. duration of authority, 544 mode of contracting by, 445–6, proof of contracts by agent, 545 notice to, 546-'7 Alienation- by husband to wife, and vice versa, by wife before marriage, in fraud of of wife's separate property, 319 to 326 by wife to stranger, 338 to 341 by infants, 477, 487, 494 by corporations, 552 restraints upon, 552 Alimony, 269, 278, 281 to 283 Allowances to guardians, 456 to 462. inviolability of, 81 Aristocracy, characteristics of, 27 Arms, right to have for defence, 62, 67 Artificial persons, or corporations, 497 Assault and battery, by and on corpora- Assent to marriage, age of party for, 237, of parent or guardian, 244 Assessment, on shares in corporation, Assignment, of contract of apprentice- wardship, 425-'6, 430-31 Amotion, of public officers, causes and Assize, of novel disseisin for office, 584 modes, 93 officers of corporations, 527 Answer, of corporations in chancery, Ante-nati, 147 Attainder, bills of, prohibited, 63 474-'5 power of by infant, void, 485-'6 Ante-nuptial contracts of wife, 302, 335- Authorities, to determine the law, 31 to '6, 484 conveyances of wife, 298 Anticipation, of income of wife's sepa- of joint-income, of family, restrained, Annual parliaments, 74 Annus luctus, of widow, 410 Appearance, of infant, in court by guar- dian ad litem, or next friend, 432--'3, error cured by Statute of Jeofails, Appointment of court, guardians by, Apportionment, of hires of servant, 170 Apprentices, who, and why so called, 180 instrument of contract, 180-'81 obligation of master, apprentice, and master's right to apprentice's earn- authority of master, 185-'6 penalty for enticing or harboring ap- dissolution of contract, 187-'8 Archbishoprics, 48. See Provinces. 32 Authority, of master over apprentice, master over servant, 194 of agent, express or implied, 203 to agent, extent of, 206 to 209 joint and several, general or special contracts in pursuance of, 209 to 216 termination of, 223 to 227 of husband over wife, 285-'6 of torts, by infants, not allowed, 495 Bachelor, knight, 155 Bail, excessive, prohibited, 63, 64 Bank-directors, authority of, 546 currency, not be issued by city, 539-'40 See Banks. Bankruptcy, of principal, revokes agen- Banks, liability of agent, &c., for depo- foreign, not to operate in Virginia, 540 Bridges, erection of public, 119 By-laws, power of corporations to make, mode of enacting, 553 to be fair and reasonable, 553-'4 in what courts used, 37 in what causes in Virginia, 37 pre-contract, 233-'4, 239, 258 incurable impotency of body, 236, effect of canonical impediments, 236-27 Charter, great, of England, 55, 60, 62 a contract, how and when modified, choses in action of wife, 304 to 310 right of corporation to acquire, 547, of corporations, at dissolution, 552 Children. See Parent & Child, Infants, paupers, provision for, 128 custody of, in case of divorce, 269 on legitimacy, 237, 258, 239, 259, custody of, by deeds of separation, 289 Children- duties of parents to, 375 to 396 by father, 375 to 379 after-born, effect on will, 379-'80 education, 381 to 396. See Educa- power of parents over, 396 to 405 custody, and correction, 396 to 403 care of estate of, 403-'4 405 duties of to parents, 405 bastards born out of wedlock, 407 bastards born in wedlock, 411 father compelled to support, 412 custody of, 416 rights and incapacities of bastards, at common law, 416 to 420 meaning of term child, &c., in gifts, Chivalry, guardians in, 424-'5 Choses in action, husband's interest in wife's, 304 to 310 wife's equity in, 306 to 310 Church, in Virginia, before revolution, glebes sequestered, 502 jurisdiction of divorces, &c., 266 to Cities, 49 counties corporate, 50 not to issue currency, in Virginia, Citizens, who are in England, 137-'8 limited partnerships, 506-'7 Civil divisions, of England, 49, 50 Civil law, 35 to 37 in what courts used, 37 in what cases in Virginia, 37 Civil liberty, 52 · Civil list, of England, 90 difference between the sexes, as to, act, in case of bastardy, 413-'14 Clementine constitutions, 36 Clerks, parish, in England, 152 of county, &c. courts issue marriage Code, of Justinian, 35-'6 codes, revisals of, how construed, 41 Coke, institutes, 32 reports, 32 Collative advowsons, 151 nature of in English universities, 508 Comitatus, posse, 100 Commerce, king the arbiter of, 83 justice of peace, 105-'6 Commissioners, of monthly courts in of roads, election, 114 functions, 117, 118, 119-'20 to assess damages for roads, 118 require inventory and account of proceedings to enforce duties, 451 Commissions, guardian's, 457 to 460 rise and original, 30, 31 subjects to which it relates, 31 what is in Virginia, 43 Common placing, mode of study, 21 elections of members, 70 to 72 |