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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Part I.
AGRICULTURE.
CHAPTER I.
LAWS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
§ 1. The value of agriculture to the body politic.
§ 2. The Department of Agriculture.
§ 3. Agricultural colleges.
§ 4. Expenses of agricultural colleges to be paid by the States.
§ 5. Special provisions by acts of Congress as to agricultural colleges.
CHAPTER II.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.
§ 6. The United States Agricultural Society.
$ 7. Statutes concerning agricultural societies.
8. Agricultural societies in certain States.
$9. State laws as to agricultural societies.
$10. Statutes affecting agricultural societies.
$ 11. Statutes in certain States concerning agricultural societies.
$12. Summary of legislation for agricultural societies.
$13. Police powers by agricultural societies.
§ 14. General laws as to corporations affecting agricultural societies.
§ 19.
§ 20.
§ 21.
Query as to necessity of written reservation of crop.
Value of rule that reservation of crop must be in writing.
As to growing crop when land is mortgaged.
§ 22.
Rights of tenant as to crops on mortgaged lands.
§ 23.
§ 24.
What protection tenant can have as to his crop against mortgagee.
Levy of execution on growing crops.
Notice of chattel mortgage on crops.
§ 33.
§ 34.
Relation of homestead exemption to growing crops.
Statute of Frauds as to growing crops.
§ 35. Ownership of crop dependent upon title to land
§ 36. General propositions as to disposal of crops.
§ 37. Prima vestura and annual crops.
§ 47. Usage as to ownership of manure.
§ 48. Exceptions to general rules as to ownership of manure.
§ 49. The right to collect sea-weed for manure.
Part II.
DAMAGES.
CHAPTER V.
INJURY BY FIRE.
§ 50. General rule as to damage by fire.
§ 51. No redress for damage by unavoidable accident.
$52. Common-law rule as to damage by fire.
$53. One may burn stubble, when.
$54. One may burn rubbish or wood on his land.
$55. As to burden of proof of negligence in case of fire.
$56. Proximate damages alone recoverable.
§ 57. Statutes as to damage by fire.
§ 58. State laws as to injury by fire.
$59. A trespasser responsible for damage by fire.
$60. Liability of hunters or travelers for damage by fire.
§ 61. Damage by fire from steam-thresher.
$62. Negligence in use of steam-thresher.
§ 63. Duty of proprietor of steam-thresher to use appliances to prevent escape
of sparks.
§ 64. Owner of steam-thresher not an insurer.
$65. Fires caused by locomotives, common-law rule.
$66. Rule in America as to fires by sparks from locomotives.
§ 67. Statute as to fires from locomotives.
$68. State laws as to fires from locomotives in America.
$69. Value of common-law rule as to fires from locomotives.
$ 70. Burden of proof of negligence when fire occurs from locomotive.
$71. Duty of railroad corporation to guard against fire.
$72. Care required to prevent escape of fire from locomotive.
$73. Duty of railroad company to extinguish fires caused by locomotives.
$74. Proximate and remote damage by fire from locomotive.
$75. Liability of railroad companies for damage by spread of fire.
$76. Duty of farmer to guard his crops against fire from locomotive.
§ 77. Farmers not bound to guard against fire.
CHAPTER VI.
DAMAGE TO LIVE-STOCK BY RAILROAD CARS OR ENGINES.
§ 78. Liability of railway for injury to animals.
§ 79. Contributory negligence by owner of animals.
§ 80.
§ 81.
The owner of animals must take due care of them.
Damage by locomotives to animals running at large.
§ 82.
§ 83.
§ 84.
Collision with live-stock where the railway company has right of way.
Contract to fence by railroad company with land-owner.
Responsibility of railroad companies to the public.
§ 85.
§ 86.
Burden of proof of negligence when animals are injured by locomotives.
First duty of railway companies to guard their trains.
§ 87.
Railway companies may regulate speed of trains.
§ 88.
§ 89.
Laws as to collision with animals are not for the benefit alone of the
owner of live-stock.
The duty of railway companies as to gates and other openings in fences.
§ 90. Reasonable diligence only required in keeping gates closed.
Part III.
ANIMALS.
CHAPTER VII.
HIRE OF ANIMALS.
§ 91. Contract of hire of animals.
§ 92.
§ 93.
§ 94.
§ 95.
§ 96.
§ 97.
§ 98.
§ 99.
Special covenants by the lettor of animals.
Warranty of title implied by letting animals.
The hirer of animals must feed and care for them.
Extraordinary expenses incurred in care of hired animals.
When hired animals are stolen, loss falls on owner.
Negligence sufficient to charge hirer for loss of animals.
Hirer of animals liable for loss from servants' negligence.
Hirer of animals has a special property in them.
§ 101. Distinction between hirer and borrower of animals.
§ 102. Borrower of animals restricted to stipulated use of them.
§ 107. Contracts made by drunkards.
§ 108. Mutual assent of parties to a sale.
§ 109. Taking animals on trial.
§ 110. Fraud vitiates all contracts.
§ 111. Misrepresentations of material facts destroy the contract.
§ 112. Concealment of material facts.
§ 113. Statute of Frauds in sale of animals.
§ 114. Mistakes as to material facts in sale of animals
$115. Let the buyer beware.
CHAPTER IX.
WARRANTY ON SALE OF ANIMALS.
§ 116. Contract of warranty in sale of animals.
§ 117. Warranty of title by sale of animals.
$118. Warranty may be made any time before sale.
§ 119. Express warranty.
§ 120. Warranty to be made good in letter and spirit.
§ 121. Visible defects not covered by warranty.
§ 122. Words of description, when a warranty.
$123. Expression of opinion, when a warranty.
$124. Implied warranty.
$125. Warranty of merchantable character of article sold.
$126. Warranty against latent defects.
$127. Warranty in sales by sample or specimen.
$128. Implied warranty in cases of fraud.
§ 129. Measure of damages on breach of warranty.
CHAPTER X.
WARRANTY OF SOUNDNESS OF ANIMALS.
§ 130. What constitutes soundness and unsoundness.
$131. Meaning of the word "sound," in warranty of horses.
§132. The measure of unsoundness.
$133. Diseases which do or do not constitute unsoundness.