form for bond to perform a, 280.
See _Deceit_, _Drunkenness_, _Quasi-Contracts_

Contract of service, 267

Contract, Quasi. See _Quasi Contract_

Contractors, independent, and Compensation Acts, 271

Conveyance of real estate, in Statute of Frauds, 242

Co-partnership, form for articles of, 305, 307

Corporate owners of vessels, 236

Corporation, cannot become a voluntary bankrupt, 31;
an involuntary bankrupt, 31;
definition of manufacturing, 31;
trading, 32;
through its officers can admit inability to pay debts, 32;
when paying benefits not exempt from taxes, 41;
liability for injuries, 41;
as mortgagee, 53;
may be included in term citizen, 62;
kinds of, 72, 73;
formation of, 73, 74;
perpetual charters, 73, 74;
has no heirs, 74;
continues through succession, 74;
purchase of stock by one member, 74;
capital of, 74;
reasons for forming, 75;
who can subscribe to stock of, 75;
fictitious subscriptions to stock of, 75;
stock certificates 76, 86;
capital stock increased 76;
rights of stockholders, 76;
preferred stock, 76;
subscriptions
to shares is a contract, 77;
cannot purchase own shares, 78;
has no lien on its stock, 78;
liability of shareholders, 78, 79;
appointment of receivers, 79;
assessments on stock, 79;
meetings, 80;
power of, 80;
charter of, 80;
majority shall rule may be modified, 80;
who may call meetings, 80, 81;
annual meetings, 81;
regular meetings, 81;
special meetings, 82;
notices waived, 82, 83;
who can vote, 83, 84, 85;
right of transferee, 85;
directors of, 86-93, 94, 96, 100, 101;
affairs handled by few men, 88; failure of, 92;
dividends, 92, 94-98;
wrongs of, 98;
liability for acts of agents, 98, 99;
owner of stock has insurable interest in goods, 126;
when private may make lease, 155;
municipal, and leases, 155;
may take lease, 155;
can sue for slander or libel, 253;
may be a devisee, or legatee, 264

Court, federal and state, 1, 4;
district, 4;
of appeal, 4;
of equity, 16, 118-122, 128;
United States district, 31;
civil, 164

Covenants, 104, 105, 122, 165.
See _Deeds_

Credit, letter of, form for, 309

Creditor, of bailee, 28;
assignment for benefit of, 32;
filing of petition against bankrupt, 33, 34;
claims of, 34, 35, 36;
election of trustee by, 34, 36;
right to vote at meetings, 35;
may object to discharge of bankrupt,