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SERVICES AND WORKS, (continued.)

of the performance of works, and payment either at a stipulated price
or upon a quantum meruit, 236.

in an action for reward for services, the employer may show the badness
of the work, &c., so as to reduce the claim, 239.

deviation from a building contract for a specific price, by additional works,
&c., how the party is to be paid, 236.

contracts and promises for services and works without consideration,
void, 241.

by surveyors, 243.

surgeons and apothecaries, 244.

physicians, 246.

counsel, 247.

attornies, solicitors, and proctors, Ib.

commissioners to examine witnesses, 255.

arbitrators, Ib.

clergymen, Ib.

stage performers, 256.

schoolmasters, 258.

printers, 259.

apprentices, Ib.

bailiffs of cities. &c. at elections, in providing booths, &c., 260.

in procuring the sale of an estate, or annuity, or obtaining a tenant

&c., 260. 265.

procuring a sum of money, 261.

endeavouring to obtain a pardon, 262.

for obtaining information to enable a party to receive stock, &c., Ib.
rendered with a view of being rewarded by a legacy or other gratuitous

remuneration, 263.

SHERIFFS. See Money Had and Received and Paid by, 355.

what contracts made with sheriffs void by the common law, 56.

SIMONIACAL CONTRACTS, void, 36.
SMUGGLING,

statute law, 60.

what contracts are void upon the ground of smuggling, 64.
SOLICITORS. See Services and Works.

SOUTHERN WHALE FISHERY,

shares of an adventure between a captain and his crew,

302.

STAGE PERFORMERS. See Services and Works.

STAKEHOLDER,

how recoverable,

in what cases money had and received by him, may be recovered back, 271.
STAMPS,

of the stamp duty payable on contracts and agreements, 44.

of the exemption relating to the sale of goods, 45.

letters, &c., 51.

what other agreements not within the stamp acts, 46.

of agreements relating to different subjects on the same paper, &c., 49.

of the effect of altering an agreement after it has been executed and
delivered, Ib.

STATUTE OF FRAUDS. See Frauds, statute of,

STIPULATED DAMAGES. See Penalty and stipulated Damages.

STOCK IN THE PUBLIC FUNDS, &c. NOT MONEY, 84.

contracts to accept or replace stock, 426.

STOCK-BROKER,

cannot recover differences paid on time bargains for his principal, 587. 404.
STOCK-JOBBING TRANSACTIONS VOID BY STATUTE, 62.

SUNDAY,

sale of goods in the ordinary trade of the vendor void, but not other-
wise, 60.

SURGEON AND APOTHECARY. See Services and Works.

SURVEYORS. See Services and Works.

SURETY. See Principal and Surety.

SUTLERS,

an agreement by a person supplying a regiment, to pay to two sutlers a
certain sum per diem, for every ration they should leave in the maga-
zine, is void, 58.

T.

TOLL-GATE KEEPER,

taking excess of toll, 359.

TRADE,

an agreement for a limited restraint of trade is valid, 438
but for a total restraint it is void, Ib.

TRUSTEES. See Money Had and Received.

U.

USURY. See Money Had and Received.

usurious contracts void, 61.

taking usurious interest, when recoverable back, 365.

V.

VOLUNTARY PAYMENTS, 338. 392.

W.

WAGES. See Master and Servant.

WAGER POLICIES, illegal, 63.

WAGERS,

what wagers are void, 57.

WAREHOUSEMAN,

legal, and of a ctions thereon, 371.

when liable for loss or damage of goods, 593.
WARRANTY OF CATTLE OR GOODS. See Sales.
WHARFINGERS,

when liable for goods left at a wharf, &c., 592.
WORK AND LABOUR. See Services and Works.

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TABLE

Explanatory of Abbreviations of References to Books

IN THIS WORK.

Atk........

Ambl.

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Andr.

Bl. Com........

Bl. Rep........

Bac. Abr.......

Barnard.........

....Atkin's Reports. ...Ambler's Reports. .....Andrew's Reports.

...Blackstone's Commentaries. ..Sir W. Blackstone's Reports. ....Bacon's Abridgment.

........Barnardiston's Reports.

Bul. Ni. Pri.............Buller's Nisi Prius.

Barn. & Ald.......... Barnewall and Alderson's Reports.
Bro. Parl. Cas..........Brown's Parliamentary Cases.

Bro. Ch. Cas.........

Burr..........

Bulst....

Bos. & Pul....

Bro. Abr......

Brod. & Bing.
Bing.

Chancery Cases.

......Burrow's Reports. .......Bulstrode's Reports.

Bosanquet and Puller's Reports. ....Brook's Abridgment.

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.Brodrip and Bingham's Reports.
Bingham's Reports.

Barn.&Cres...............

Co. Lit.

Com. Dig..

Cro. Eliz.

Cro. Car.........

Cro. Jac.

Barnewall and Creswell's Reports.
Littleton.

..Coke upon

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.Comyn's Digest.

.Croke Elizabeth's Reports.

Charles's Reports.

James's Reports.

.Cowper's Reports.

..Campbell's Reports.

Carter's Reports.
.Comyn's Reports.
..Carthew's Reports.

Comberbach's Reports.

Dyer's Reports.

Douglas's Reports.

.Danver's Abridgment.

Dow's Reports in Parliament.

Dowl. & Ryl.............Dowling and Ryland's Reports.

East or East. Rep......East's Reports.

Esp. Rep........Espinasse's Reports of Cases at Nisi Prius.

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