Birth Date:
1791-11-29
Death Date:
1879-02-23
Litchfield Ledger:
Provenance:
Contents of the notebook of Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (1791-1879), a student at Litchfield Law School in 1812
Lecture Date | Lecturer | Opening Line | All terms |
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Bills of exchange & promissory notes, Bills of exchange and promissory notes | |||
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 | Gould, James | By a purchaser in the Books is meant he who is entitle to real property in any other way than by descent. | Devises, Devises real property |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | On this subject there are constantly arising new questions in the courts of justice. | Evidence, Evidence |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Records are of different kinds. Records are properly action of the Legislature and judges of the courts. | Evidence, Records |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 | Gould, James | A Bill of exchanges is an open letter of request from one person to another requesting him to pay a sum of money to another person or to any other person whom that there person shall direct, or to the bearer. | Bills of exchange & promissory notes, Bills of exchange & promissory notes |
1812-01-01 to 1812-12-31 | Gould, James | The Law Merchant has usually been demoninated a particular custom. | Lex Mercatoria, Mercantile law |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Mercantile law, it is said, is the custom of merchants, but this does not partake of the nature of a custom which is the law of a particular place. | Insurance, Lecture 1st Insurance |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Mercantile law, it is said, is the custom of merchants, but this does not partake of the nature of a custom which is the law of a particular place. | Insurance, Insurance |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Insurances with respect to lives and fires, as there is an interest, they are good. What persons may be insured. | Insurance, Lecture 2nd Insurance |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | Assumpsit is a promise to do or not to do some act. It is the same thing whether in writing or not. | Assumpsit, Assumpsit |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | This may be plead to an action of Debt or Covenant or anything that is where one offers to perform his part of the Contract. | Tender, Tender |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | The laws on this subject are very different but the principles are the same. | Statute of limitations, Statute of limitations |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | When a contract is entered into to pay a sum or to do a collateral act, it is accord and satisfaction. | Accord & satisfaction, Accord & satisfaction |
1813-01-01 to 1813-12-31 | Reeve, Tapping | An award may also be used as a defence. | Award, Awards |
1813-03-26 | Reeve, Tapping | A double insurance is where the owner insures the same property more than once at different offices. | Double insurance, Insurance |
1813-03-27 | Reeve, Tapping | In order to charge the Insurer, the loss must happen during the continuace of the risk. | Charging the insurer, Insurance |
1813-03-29 | Reeve, Tapping | It frequently happens that after a certain point on a voyage, different courses may be taken. | Change in voyage, Insurance |
1813-03-30 | Reeve, Tapping | The next [word] is that the property is neutral. | Insurance, Neutral property |
1813-04-05 | Reeve, Tapping | The next loss is that by capture. | Capture, Insurance |
1813-04-06 | Reeve, Tapping | When a vessel neutral is taken and carried into front and it turns out that she was unjustly taken | Insurance, Neutral vessel |
1813-04-07 | Reeve, Tapping | If the loss is total and the policy is valid one that has already been | Adjustment of losses, Insurance |
1813-04-08 | Reeve, Tapping | It is often stipulated in the policy itself that the premium shall be returned upon the happening of such an event. | Insurance, Premiums |
1813-04-09 | Reeve, Tapping | There is one thing you must remember that a loss may happen and yet the Insurer not be liable. | Insurance, Insurer's liability |
1813-04-10 | Reeve, Tapping | These policies are frequently procured by the agents of the insured and their subscription is proved as in other cases. | Insurance, Insurance policies |
1813-04-13 | Reeve, Tapping | There are two kinds--one is when Merchant agrees with owner or Master of ship to carry goods for him from A to B, and as the case may be, back again. | Charter parties, Charter parties |
1813-04-14 | Reeve, Tapping | I make but a few observations on this subject because in most cases the Law governs. | Joint owners of vessels, Joint ownership |
1813-04-15 | Reeve, Tapping | Men are always partners in trade and liable as such. | Partnership, Partnership |
1813-04-16 | Reeve, Tapping | A Factor is a person employed by one merchant to do business for him in another place. | Factors, Factors/agency |
1813-04-16 | Reeve, Tapping | This is a right merchants have of stopping after they have sold them. | Stoppage in transitu, Stopping goods in transitu |
1813-04-16 | Reeve, Tapping | Their contracts are by the law Merchant. | Sailors & seamen, Seamen��_s wages & sailor��_s contracts |
1813-04-17 | Reeve, Tapping | A crime is said to be an act committed against the law. It is omitting what ought to be done or doing what ought not to be done. | Criminal law, Public wrongs |
1813-04-19 | Reeve, Tapping | The principal is the perpetrator of the offence; an acessory is on who gives countenance to the perpetration of it, or he may give relief or assitance to one who is perpetrator. | Principal & accessory, Public wrongs |
1813-04-20 | Reeve, Tapping | This is an offence at Common Law. It is a willful and malicious burning of the house of another. | Arson, Public wrongs |
1813-04-22 | Reeve, Tapping | This is the breaking and entering a mansion house in the night with an intent to commit a felony, i.e., a crime which would be punished with death in England. | Burglary, Public wrongs |
1813-04-23 | Reeve, Tapping | This is a false swearing wilfully and must be in a point material in the case. | Perjury, Public wrongs |
1813-04-23 | Reeve, Tapping | Forgery at Common law is the making or altering any record or matter of public nature or any deed with intent to prevent equity and justice. | Forgery, Public wrongs |
1813-04-24 | Reeve, Tapping | Theft is a feloneous taking and carrying away by any person the personal good of another. | Public wrongs, Theft |
1813-04-24 | Reeve, Tapping | Piracy include every species of defrauding or robbery on the seas, that amounts to felony in any of the aforementioned cases. | Piracy, Public wrongs |
1813-04-26 | Reeve, Tapping | Riot is a disturbance of the peace. It must be done by three or more. | Public wrongs, Riot rout |
1813-04-26 | Reeve, Tapping | A person is a Barrater who vexes others with unjust, frequent and ...law suits, so to he is a Barrater who urges other to do the same. | Barratry, Public wrongs |
1813-04-26 | Reeve, Tapping | This is an offence at Common Law and is the buying up of other people's law suits or quarrels. | Champerty, Public wrongs |
1813-04-27 | Reeve, Tapping | This is a crime and is of two kinds. One is where a man reserves in his obligation more than he lends. | Public wrongs, Usury |
1813-04-27 | Reeve, Tapping | This differs from slander in a variety of things. A libel must be written or printed or it may be by pictures & signs. | Libel, Private wrongs |
1813-04-27 | Reeve, Tapping | Adultery in England is not punishable at Common Law. | Adultery, Private wrongs |
1813-04-28 | Reeve, Tapping | Bigamy is an offence at Common Law and is punishable as such. | Bigamy, Private wrongs |
1813-04-28 | Reeve, Tapping | There is a great deal in the law on this subject with which we have nothing to do. | Public wrongs, Treason |
1813-04-28 | Reeve, Tapping | Of these there are two: Apostacy and Heresy. As they do not apply here I shall not mention. | Offenses against religion, Public wrongs |
1813-04-29 | Reeve, Tapping | There is no perfect definition in use.The Judge will consider the examples in the Books and examine the govening principles. | Homicide, Public wrongs |
1813-05-01 | Reeve, Tapping | There is a criminal redress called a complaint or information to bind persons to avoid behavior. | Information, Public wrongs |
1813-05-01 | Reeve, Tapping | Attachment, Public wrongs | |
1813-05-01 | Reeve, Tapping | When bail is given, a man may go at large, but his bail may deliver him over at any time he pleases. | Bail, Public wrongs |