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*3552. LAW MAXIMS.
3553. A promise of a debtor to give satisfactory security "for the payment of a portion of his debt, is a sufficient; consideration for a release of the residue by his creditor.
3554. Administrators are liable to account for interest on funds in their hands, although no profit shall have been made upon them, unless the exigencies of the estate rendered it prudent that they should hold the funds thus uninvested.
3555. Any person who voluntarily becomes an agent for another, and in that capacity obtains information to which as a stranger he could have had no access, is bound, in subsequent dealing with his principal, as purchaser of the property that formed the subject of his agency, to communicate such information.
3556. When a house is rendered untenantable in consequence of improvements made on the adjoining lot, the owner of such cannot recover damages, because it is presumed that he had knowledge of the approaching danger in time to protect himself from it
3557. When a merchant ship is abandoned by order of the master, for the purpose of saving life, and a part of the crew subsequently meet the vessel so abandoned, and bring her safe into port, they will be entitled to salvage.
3558. A person who has been led to well goods by means of false pretences,
* From Wel's' "Every Man us own law iei'." New York, Paris $1 cannot recover them from one who has purchased them in good faith from the fraudulent vendor.
3559. An agreement by the. holder of a note to give the principal debtor time for payment, without depriving himself of the right to sue, does not discharge the surety.
3560. A seller of goods who accepts, at the time of sale, the note of a third party, not endorsed by the buyer, in payment, cannot, in case the note is not paid, hold the buyer responsible for the value of the goods.
3561. A day book copied from a "blotter" in which charges are first made, will not be received in evidence as a book of original entries.
3562. Common carriers are not liable for extraordinary results of negligence that could not have been foreseen by ordinary skill and foresight.
3563. A bidder at a Sheriff's sale may retract his bid at any time before the property is knocked down to him, whatever may be the conditions of the sale.
3564. Acknowledgment of debt to a stranger does not preclude the operation of the statute.
3565. The fruits and grass on the farm or garden of an intestate descend to the heir.
3566. Agents are solely liable to their principals.
3567. A deposit of money in bank by a husband in the name of his wife survives to her.
3568. Money paid on Sanday con tracts may be recovered.
3569. A debtor may give preference to one creditor over another, unless fraud or special legislation can be proved.
3570. A court cannot give judgment for a larger sum than that specified in the verdict.
3571. Imbecility on the part of either the husband or the wife invalidates the marriage.
3572. An action for malicious prose-cution will lie, though nothing further was done than suing out warrants
3573. An agreement not to continue! the practice of a profession or business in any specified town, if the part)' so agreeing has received a consideration for the same, is valid.
3574. When A. consigns goods to B. to sell on commission, and B. delivers them to C. in payment of his own antecedent debts, A. can recover their value.
3575. A finder of property is compelled to make diligent inquiry for the owner thereof, and to restore the same. If, on finding such property, he attempts to conceal such fact, he may be prosecuted for larceny.
3576. A private person may obtain an injunction to prevent a public mischief by which he is affected in common with others.
3577. Any person interested may obtain an injunction to restrain the State or a municipal corporation from maintaining a nuisance on its lands.
3578. A discharge under the insolvent laves of one State will not discharge the insolvent from a contract made with a citizen of another State.
3579. To prosecute a party with any other motive than to bring him to justice, is a malicious prosecution, and actionable as such.
3580. Ministers of the gospel, residing in any incorporated town, are not exempt from jury, military, or fire service.
3581. when a person contracts to build a house, and is prevented by sickness from finishing it, he can recover for the part performed, if such part is beneficial to the other party.
3582. In a suit for enticing away a man a wife, actual proof of the marriage is not necessary. Cohabitation, reputation, and the admission of marriage by the parties, are sufficient.
3583. Permanent erections and fixtures, made'by a mortgagor after the execution of the mortgage upon the land conveyed by it, become a part of the mortgaged premises.
3584. When a marriage is denied, and plaintiff has given sufficient evidence to establish it. the defendant cannot examine the wife to disprove the marriage.
 
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