er not an, 134;
innkeeper is, 147

Interstate Commerce Commission, controls interstate telegraph
business, 248

Invention, patentable or not, 202, 203;
requirements necessary to obtain a patent, 203;
element of novelty, 204;
prior publication, 204;
usefulness, 204;
exercise of inventive power necessary for a patent, 205;
reduction of to practice, 206;
employer presumed to be the real inventor, 208;
inventor must apply for a patent, 208;
specification of, 208;
improvement on, 209

Jewelry, keeping of, by bailor, 29;
see _Carrier_, _Innkeeper_

Key, delivery of, constitutes delivery of goods, 242

Laborers, farm, and Compensation Acts, 268

Lake, title to land under and around, 112

Land, title to, bounded by navigable river, 112;
equity can forbid injuries to, 121;
equity will enforce covenants, 122;
devise of, in wills, 265;
form for agreement for sale of, 277

Land, agreement to purchase, 15;
must be in writing, 15;
how signed, 15;
how complete, 15;
oral agreement, 15, 16;
part payment, 16;
period of option to purchase, 16;
see _Contract_, _Statute of Frauds_

Land license, see _License_

Land owner, liability of, for nuisances on his property, 257;
for safety of persons and children, 259

Landlord, see _Lease_

Larceny, 27

Law, common, 1, 2, 3;
statute, 1, 2;
courts of, 4;
civil and criminal, 2, 164;
and equity, 3, 5;
insolvency, 31

Lawsuit, mode of conducting, 164

Lease, 151;
defined, 151;
oral or written, 151, 152, 153;
liability of lessee, 151, 159;
agreements in 152, 153;
year to year tenancy, 153;
term, defined, 153;
for a future period, 153, 154;
description of premises, 154;
distinction between, and agreement, 154;
valid, 155;
made by married woman, 155;
private corporation may make, 155;
municipal corporation restricted, 155;
corporation may take, 155;
executor may dispose of, 155, 156;
trustees may make, 156;
partner cannot make, 156;
for what can be made, 156;
ratification, 156;
construction of, 156;
presumes care on part of tenant, 156, 157;
rights of a mill tenant, 157;
rights of a farm tenant, 157;
assignment of, 157;
sublease, 157;
lessor may part with his interests in, 158;
not a warranty of good condition, 158;
lessor not required to make repairs, 158;
agreement to make repairs, 158, 159;
agreement to rebuild, 159;
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