This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol4 Torts, Damages, Domestic Relations", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
6. Can a wife convey her dower right to her husband?
7. Does a conveyance of a dower interest come under the statute of frauds?
8. How is dower assigned?
9. Can the right of dower be lost by estoppel?
10. When husband exchanges land, in what land has wife the right of dower?
Page 251.
1. Has wife right of dower in land held in joint tenancy. Tenancy in common? By partnership of which husband was a member?
2. What right has wife as to land conveyed by husband in contemplation of marriage?
3. Which is paramount, the right of dower of the wife or the rights of the creditors of the husband?
4. When may dower rights be lost by merger?
5. What rights has wife in mortgaged lands?
6. By the laws of what state or country is the right of dower determined?
7. How does the right of homestead affect the right of dower?
8. Has the wife the right of dower in land sold for taxes?
9. Has wife the right of dower in land sold under execution?
10. When may dower estate be seized under execution against widow?
11. What effect upon dower has the wife's desertion of her husband?
12. When does the statute of limitation begin to run against a wife's right of dower?
13. What right of dower has wife in mineral lands?
14. How was dower assigned at common law?
Page 252.
1. What is homestead?
2. What is an estate of entirety?
Page 253.
1: What is an ante-nuptial marriage settlement?
2. Under what circumstances will a post-nuptial settlement be valid?
3. What is the presumption as to such settlements?
4. May a husband make a gift to his wife?
5. What is the presumption as to property purchased by husband, the title to which is taken in the name of the wife?
6. What is an advancement?
Page 254.
1. What power of contracting did a married woman have at common law?
2. When will courts of equity decree a right of equity to wife out of her estate?
3. What is meant by the separate property of the wife?
4. What rights has wife over such property? To what liabilities is such property subject?
Page 255.
1. What right of action has husband for criminal conversation with his wife? For alienation of his wife's affection? For enticing away his wife?
Page 256.
1. Has a wife a right of action for alienation of her husband's affections?
Page 257.
1. What is community property?
2. Where is the doctrine of community property recognized?
3. What are the principal incidents of community property?
4. To whom does community property belong after the death of one of the parties to the marriage? After the divorce of the parties to the marriage?
Page 258.
1. To what extent can the status of community property be changed by ante-nuptial agreements?
Page 259.
1. What will be held to be meant by the words "child" or "children"?
2. When does the duty of father to support his child end?
3. Is a step-parent bound to support his step-child?
4. When is it the duty of the mother to support her child?
5. Does the divorce of the parents of a child affect the duty of either parent as to the support of child?
6. Is a father liable for the support of his child, while the child is improperly living with the mother apart from the father?
7. How may a child forfeit his right to be supported by his father?
8. Is a grandparent obliged to support his grandchildren?
Page 261.
1. What duty does a child owe to serve his parents?
Page 262.
1. What is the presumption when property is purchased by parent in the name of the child?
2. What is meant by "hotchpot"? When does it arise?
Page 263.
1. Has a father a right to recover for personal injury to his child?
2. How will the contributory negligence of the father affect such right?
3. When may a mother recover for personal injuries to child?
4. How were the rights of parent to recover for injuries to child changed or enlarged by Lord Campbell's Act?
Page 264.
1. Can a child recover for death of parent? When and to what extent?
Page 265.
1. What are the rights of father to custody of child at common law?
2. How have such rights been modified by modern statutes?
3. What are the rights of charitable institutions and private persons who take infants to raise?
Page 266.
1. To what extent and in what cases may a parent delegate his control over his child to a third person?
2. In case of conflicting claims between parents as to custody of child, what will be the determining element with the court in deciding to whose custody to give the child?
3. What effect will the extreme youth of the child have in such a case?
4. When, if ever, will a third party be entitled to the custody of a child as against the parent of the child.
5. Will the poverty of a parent affect this right of custody of a child?
6. Who is entitled to the custody of a bastard child?
7. What power has father to bind his child out as an apprentice?
8. What courts have jurisdiction to award the custody of a child?
9. To whom will the custody of a child be awarded upon the divorce of his parents?
10. Who have the right to the custody of orphans?
11. How may the question as to who is entitled to the custody of an infant be determined?
Page 267.
1. Did the common law recognize the adoption of a child?
Page 268.
1. Can the adoption of a child under the statute defeat a vested right in property?
2. Can an adult child be adopted?
3. Can parents inherit from adopted children?
4. Who is a bastard?
5. What effect upon status of bastard had the after marriage of his parents according to the civil law? According to the common law? What effect has it in the United States?
 
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