3644. A corporation may maintain an action for libel, for words published of them, and relating to its trade or businebs, by which it has incurred special damages

3645. It is unprofessional for a lawyer who has abandoned his case without trying it. a term or two before trial, to claim a fee conditional upon the success of his client, although his client was successful.

3646. Although a party obtaining damages for injuries received through the default of another, was himself guilty of negligence, yet that will not defeat his recovery, unless his negligence contributed to cause the injury.

3647. A person may contract to labor for another during life, in consideration of receiving his support; but his creditors have the right to inquire into the intention with which such arrangement is made, and it will be set aside if entered into to deprive them of his future earnings.

3648. A grantor may by express terms exclude the bed of a river, or a highway, mentioned as a boundary: but if without language of exclusion a line is described as 'along,' or 'upon,' or as 'running to' the highway or river, or as ' by,' or 'running to the bank of' the river: these expressions carry the grantee to the centre of the highway or river.

3649. The court will take pains to construe the words used in a deed in such a way as to effect the intention of the parties, however unskillfully the instrument may be drawn. But a court of law cannot exchange an intelligible word plainly employed in a deed for another, however evident it may be that the word used was used by mistake for another.

3650. One who has lost his memory and understanding is entitled to legal protection, whether such loss is occasioned by his own misconduct or by an act of Providence.

3651. When a wife leaves her husband voluntarily, it must be shown, in order to make him liable for necessaries furnished to her, that she could not stay with safety. Personal viod lence, either threatened or inflicted, will be sufficient cause for such separation.

3652. Necessaries of drees furnished to a discarded wife must correspond with the pecuniary circumstances of the husband, and be such articles as the wife, if prudent, would expect, and the husband should furnish, if the parties lived harmoniously together.

3653. A fugitive from justice, of one of the United States to another, may be arrested and detained in order to his surrender by authority of the latter, without a previous demand for his surrender by the executive of the state whence he fled.

3654. A watch will not pass under bequest of ' wearing apparel,' nor of 'household furniture and articles for family use.'

3655. Money paid for the purpose of settling or compounding a prosecution, for a supposed felony, cannot be recovered back by a party paying it.

3656. An inkeeper is liable for the death of an animal in his possession, but may free himself from liability by showing that the death was not occasioned by negligence on his part.

3657. Notice to the agent of a company is notice to the company.

3657. An employer is not liable to one of his employees for an injury sustained by the latter in consequence of the neglect of others of his employees engaged in the same general business.

3658. Where a purchaser at a sheriffs sale has bid the full price of property under the erroneous belief that the sale would divest the property of all liens, it is the duty of the court to give relief by setting aside the sale.

3659. When notice of protest is properly sent by mail, it may be sent by the mail of the day of the dishonor, if not, it must be mailed for the mail of the next day;. except that if there is none, or it closes at an unseasonably early hour, then notice must be mailed in season for the text possible mail.

3660. A powder-house located in a populous part of a city, and containing large quantities of gunpowder, is a nuisance.

3661. When the seller of goods accepts at the time of the sale, the note of a third person, unindorsed by the purchaser, in payment, the presumption is that the payment was intended to be absolute; and though the note should be dishonored,the pur-chaser will not be liable for the value of the goods.

3662. A man charged with crime before a committing magistrate, but discharged on his own recognizance, is not privileged from arrest on civil process while returning from the magistrate's office.

3663. When one has been induced to sell goods by means of false pretences, he cannot recover them from one who has bona fide, purchased and obtained possession of them from the fraudulent vendor.

3664. If the circumstances attendant upon a sale and delivery of personal property are such as usually and naturally accompany such a trans action, it cannot be declared a legal fraud upon creditors.

3665. A stamp impressed upon an instrument by way of seal, is good as a seal, if it creates a durable impression in the texture of the paper.

3666. A witness who has been promised a reward for giving his testimony in case the party calling him gained the suit, is incompetent by reason of interest.

3667. If a party bound to make a payment use due dilligence to make a tender, but through the payee's absence from home is unable to find him or any agent authorized to take payment for him, no forfeiture will be incurred through his failure to make a tender.