PUBLISHED BY ROBERT E. PETERSON,

NORTH-WEST CORNER OF FIFTH AND ARCH STREETS.

1851.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

JOHN BOUVIER,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

DEACON & PETERSON, PRINTERS, 66 SOUTH THIRD STREET.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

BOOK IV.-OF REMEDIES.

T. 1. Of precautions to be adopted before the commencement of an action, 3.

C. 1. Of the choice of a professional man, 3.

S. 1. Of attorneys, solicitors and proctors, 4.

S. 2. Of counsellors at law, 5.

S. 3. Of notaries public, 8.

S. 4. Of conveyancers, 9.

C. 2. Of the brief of the case, 10.

C. 3. Of the means of securing evidence, 11.

S. 1. Acts to be done by plaintiff, 12.

S. 2. Acts to be done by defendant, 14.

T. 2. Of remedies without legal assistance, 19.

C. 1. Of remedies by the act of the party aggrieved, 20.

S. 1. Of self-defense, 20.

S. 2. Of recaption and reëntry, 20.

S. 3. Of abatement of nuisances, 24.

S. 4. Of the remedy by distress, 25.

§ 1. Of the rent for which a distress may be made, 28.

A. 1. Of the nature of the rent, 28.

A. 2. Of the amount of the rent, 29.

§ 2. Of the persons entitled to make the distress, 30.

A. 1. By tenant in severalty, 30.

A. 2. By joint tenants, 30.

A. 3. By tenants in common, 30.

A. 4. By husband and wife, 31.

A. 5. By tenant by the curtesy, 32.

A. 6. By tenant in dower, 32.

A. 7. By tenant for life, 32.

A. 8. By heir or devisee, 33.

A. 9. By trustees and guardians, 33.

§ 3. Of the things which may be distrained, 34.

A. 1. Of goods absolutely exempt from distress, 34.

A. 2. Of goods conditionally exempt from distress, 37.

4. Of the time when the distress ought to be made, 38.

5. Of the place where a distress may be made, 39.

A. 1. On the land, 39.

A. 2. Off the land, 40.

§ 6. Of the manner of making the distress, 41.

A. 1. By whom to be made, 41.

A. 2. The form of seizing a distress, 41.

A. 3. Of the quantity of goods to be taken, 42.