THE

AMERICAN LAWYER,

BUSINESS-MAN'S FORM-BOOK;

AND

CONTAINING

FORMS AND INSTRUCTIONS

For
Contracts,

Arbitration and

Award, Assignments,
Chattel Mortgages, Bills

of Sale, Bill of Lading, Bonds,

Exchange, Drafts, Promissory Notes,

Orders, Receipts, Due-Bills, Conveyances,

Deeds, Mortgages, Indentures, Satisfactions,

Releases, Dower, Leases, Landlord's and Tenant's

Agreements, Composition with Creditors, Charter of
Vessels, Building, Letters of Credit and License, Marriage,
Articles of Partnership, Power of Attorney, Wills and Codicils,

Trust Forms, Barter, Liabilities of Common Carriers and of Minors,
Naturalization, Pre-Emption Rights on Public Lands, Rights to Military
Bounty Land, Copyright Laws, Regulations and Forms for obtaining Patents,
Customhouse Regulations, Domestic and Foreign Rates of Postage, A System of
Book-Keeping, Interest Tables, Equation Time Table, Interest and Mensuration Rules,
Weights and Measures of different Countries, Value of Gold and Silver Coins, &c., &c..

TOGETHER WITH

THE LAWS OF THE VARIOUS STATES

ON THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY FOR VOTERS
HOUSEHOLD AND HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS FROM EXECUTION, DEEDS,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DEEDS, MECHANICS LIEN, COLLECTION
OF DEBTS, LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, REGULATING CONTRACTS,
CHATTEL MORTGAGES, RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN
DOWER, RATES OF INTEREST, USURY, AND WILLS;

AND

A MAP AND SEAL FOR EACH STATE IN THE UNION.

BY DELOS W. BEADLE, A. M.,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW

NEW YORK:

ENSIGN, BRIDGMAN & FANNING, 156 WILLIAM STREET;
HUBBARD & BURGESS, 133 WILLIAM STREET;

CINCINNATI; H. M. RULISON.-CHICAGO: RUFUS BLANCHARD

Eute el, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by H. PHELPs & Co., and Re-entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855,

By ENSIGN, BRIDGMAN, & FANNING, AND C. C. SAVAGE,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.