GENERAL REMARKS IN REGARDS TO COUNTERFEITS
The paper on which they are printed is generally of a very inferior quality, with less body, finish and toughness than bank note paper has. The ink generally lacks the rich luster of the genuine; the red letters and figures are generally imperfect, and the ink does not present the vermilion hue as It should. The printing is generally inferior, usually exhibiting specks of white in the most prominent letters. The date and filling up, and the President's and Cashier's names are generally written by the same person, although in many instances they present a different appearance. There are bills in circulation bearing either genuine dies or vignettes; but upon close examination you will be enabled to detect any spurious bill, whether counterfeit or altered, by the instructions here give, if preserved in for a short time. We beg to suggest, if time will admit, the learner should examine minutely ever bill he receives. A powerful pocket magnifying glass, which can be purchased for from fifty cents to one dollar at any of the opticians, will greatly enable you to see and comprehend the difference between genuine and spurious work.
LAW MAXIMS
When a merchant ship is abandoned by order of the master, for the purpose of saving live, and a part of the crew subsequently meet the vessel so abandoned and bring her safe to port, they will be entitled to salvage.
A person who has been led to sell goods by means of false pretenses, cannot recover them from one who has purchased them in good faith from the fraudulent vendor.
All fruits and grass on the farm of an intestate (deceased) descend to the heir.
Money paid on Sunday contracts may be recovered.
Imbecility on the part of either husband or wife, invalidates the marriage.
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.
Any person interested may obtain an injunction to restrain the State or municipal corporation from maintaining a nuisance on its lands.
To prosecute a party with any other motive than to bring him to justice, is malicious prosecution, and actionable a such.
In a suit for enticing away a man’s wife, actual proof of the marriage is not necessary. Cohabitation, reputation, and the admission of marriage by both parties are sufficient.
Contracts for advertisement in Sunday newspapers can not be enforced.
A seller of goods, or other property, commits no fraud in law, when he neglects to tell the purchaser of any flaws, defects, or unsoundness of the same.
The opinions of witness, as to the value of a dog that has been killed, are not admissible in evidence. The value of the animal is to be decided by the jury.
If a person, who is unable from illness to sing his will, has his hand guided in making his mark, his signature is valid.
In an action for slander, the party making the complaint must prove the words alleged; other words of like meaning will not suffice.
In a suit of damages for seduction, proof of pregnancy, and birth of child, is not essential. It is sufficient if the illness of the girl, whereby she was unable to labor, was produced by shame for the seduction; and this is such a loss of service as will sustain the action.
Addressing to a wife a letter containing matter defamatory to the character of her husband is a publication, and renders the writer amenable to damages.
An emigrant depot is not a nuisance in law.
A railroad track through the streets is not a nuisance in law.
Delivery of a husband’s goods by a wife to her adulterer, he having knowledge that she has taken them without her husband’s authority, is sufficient to sustain and indictment for larceny against the adulterer.
When a person has, by legal inquisition been found a habitual drunkard, he cannot, even in his sober intervals, make contracts to bind himself or his property, until the inquisition is removed.
A wife can not be convicted of receiving stolen goods when she received them of her husband.
Males can marry at fourteen and females at twelve years of age.
All cattle found at large upon any public road, can be driven by any person to the public pond.
Any dog chasing, barking, or otherwise threatening a passer-by in any street, lane, road, or other public thoroughfare, may lawfully be killed for the same.
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 violence, either threatened or inflicted, will sufficient cause for such separation.
Necessaries of dress 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.
A watch will not pass under bequest of “wearing apparel,” nor of “household furniture and articles for family use.”
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.
A powder house located in a populous part of a city, and containing a large quantity of gunpowder, is a nuisance.
