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The Law of Contracts, Volume 2

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Theophilus Parsons

Little, Brown, 1857 - Contracts

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Index

Contents

PART II	8

Some of the general rules of construction	10

SECTION IV	27

SECTION VII	37

Of the admissibility of extrinsic evidence in the interpretation	59

CHAPTER II	74

General principles	80

SECTION V	89

SECTION VIII	403

SECTION X	409

Of sales of notes and other choses in action	415

SECTION XIII	422

SECTION II	428

SECTION III	436

SECTION V	449

SECTION VI	458

Of foreign marriages	98

Of foreign divorces	107

CHAPTER III	119

Of payment by letter	125

Of appropriation of payments	133

SECTION II	140

Of the tender of chattels	149

Of the kind of performance	159

Of defences resting upon the acts or omissions of the plaintiff	178

SECTION VI	190

SECTION VII	211

SECTION IX	222

SECTION XI	229

Of setoff	239

Of contracts opposed to the revenue laws of other countries 259	249

Of the Sunday law 262	257

CHAPTER IV	257

CHAPTER V	336

SECTION II	342

SECTION III	348

Of new promises and part payments by one of several joint	354

Of accounts between merchants	361

Of the statute exceptions and disabilities	368

OF INTEREST AND USURY	375

SECTION IV	387

SECTION VI	395

In the action of trover	465

In the action of replevin	472

Where a vendor sues a vendee	478

When interest is included	484

Of the breach of contract to pay money or goods	485

CHAPTER VIII	504

SECTION II	512

465	533

SECTION V	534

Of part performance	534

SECTION VI	534

ON BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY	572

SECTION II	580

SECTION III	597

SECTION IV	604

SECTION VI	610

SECTION VII	619

SECTION VIII	625

SECTION X	647

Of the proof of debts and of dividends	668

Of the time of performance	669

CHAPTER X	674

SECTION III	682

SECTION IV	692

Of impossibility of performance

483

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Title	The Law of Contracts, Volume 2 The Law of Contracts, Theophilus Parsons Volume 2 of The Law of Contracts: By Theophilus Parsons, Theophilus Parsons
Author	Theophilus Parsons
Edition	3
Publisher	Little, Brown, 1857
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	26 Jul 2012

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