3611. Any contract made with a per son judicially deelared a lunatic is void

3612. Money paid voluntarily in any transaction, with a knowledge of the facts, cannot be recovered.

3613. In all cases of special contract for services, the plaintiff can recover only the amount stipulated in the contract.

3614. A wife is a competent witness with her husband, to prove the contents of a lost trunk.

3615. A wife cannot be convicted of receiving stolen goods when she received them of her husband.

3616. Insurance against fire, by lightning or otherwise, does not cover loss by lightning when there is no combustion.

3617. Failure to prove plea of justification, in a case of slander, aggravates the offence.

3618. It is the agreement of the parties to sell by sample that constitutes a sale by sample, not the mere exhibition of a specimen of the goods.

3619. An agent is liable to his principals for loss caused by his misstatements, though unintentional.

3620. Makers of promissory notes given in advance for premiums on policies of insurance, thereafter to be taken, are liable thereon.

3621. An agreement to pay for procuring an appointment to office, is void.

3622. An attorney may plead the statute of limitations, when, sued by a client for money which he has collected and failed to pay over.

3623. Testimony given by a deceased witness on first trial is not required to be repeated verbatim on the second.

3624. A person entitling himself to a reward offered for lost property has a lien upon the property for the reward; but only when a definite reward is offered.

3625. Confession by a prisoner must be voluntarily made, to constitute evi dence against him.

3626. The defendant in a suit must be served with process: but service of such process upon his wife, even in his absence from the State is not.

in the absence of statutory provisions, sufficient.

3627. The measure of damages in trespass for cutting timber, is its value as a chattel on the land where it was felled, and not the market price of the lumber manufactured.

3628. To support an indictment for malicious mischief in killing an animal, malice towards its owner must be shown, not merely passion excited against the animal itself.

3629. No action can be maintainea against a Sheriff for omitting to account for money obtained upon an execution within a reasonable time. He has till the return day to render such account.

3630. An interest in the profits of an enterprise, as profits, renders the party holding it a partner in the enterprise, and makes him presumptively liable to share any loss.

3631. Males can marry at fourteen, and females at twelve years of age.

3632. All cattle found at large upon any public road, can be driven by any person to the public pound.

3633. Any dog chasing, barking or otherwise threatening a passer-by in any street, lane, road, or other public thoroughfare, may be lawfully killed for the same.

3634. A written promise for the payment of such amount as may come into the hands of the promisor, is held to be an instrument in writing for the payment of money.

3635. The declaration of an agent is not admissible to establish the fact of agency. But when other proper evidence is given, tending to establish the fact of agency, it is not error to admit the declarations of the agent, accompanying acts, though tending to show the capacity in which he acted. When evidence is competent in one respect and incompetent in another, it is the duty of the court to admit it, and control its effects by suitable instructions to the jury.

3636. The court has a general power to remove or suspend an attornr for such immoral conduct as rendered him unworthy of confidence in his official capacity.

3637. Bankruptcy is pleadable in bar to all actions and in all courts, and this bar may be avoided whenever it is interposed, by showing fraud in the procurement of the discharge, or a violation of any of the provisions of the bankrupt act.

3638. An instrument in the form of a deed, but limited to take effect at the termination of the grantor's natural life, is held to be a deed, not a will.

3639. A sale will not be set aside as fraudulent, simply because the buyer was at the time unable to make the payment agreed upon, and knew his inability, and did not intend to pay.

3640. No man is under an obligation to make known his circumstances when he is buying goods.

3641. Contracting parties are bound to disclose material facts known to each, but of which either supposes the other to be ignorant, only when they stand in some special relation of trust and confidence in relation to the subject-matter of the contract. But neither will be protected if he does anything, however slight, to mislead or deceive the other.

3642. A contract negotiated by mail is formed when notice of acceptance of the offer is duly deposited in the post-office, properly addressed. This rule applies, although the party making the offer expressly requires that if it is accepted, 6peedy notice of acceptance shall be given him.

3643. The date of an instrument is bo far a material part of it, that an alteration of the date by the holder after election, makes the instrument void.