99. When a wife leaves her husband voluntarily, it must be shown, in order to make him liable for necessaries furnished to her, that she could not stay with safety. Personal violence, either threatened or inflicted, will be sufficient cause for such separation. 100. Necessaries of dress furnished to a discarded wife must correspond with the pecuniary circumstances of the husband, and be such articles as the wife, if prudent, would expect, and the husband should furnish, if the parties lived harmoniously together. 101. A fugitive from justice from one of the United States to another, may be arrested and detained in order to his surrender by authority of the latter, without a previous demand for his surrender by the executive of the State whence he fled. 102. A watch will not pass under a bequest of "wearing apparel," nor of household furniture and articles for family use." 103. Money paid for the purpose of settling or compounding a prosecution for a supposed felony, cannot be recovered back by a party paying it. 104. An innkeeper is liable for the death of an animal in his possession, but may free himself from liability by showing that the death was not occasioned by negligence on his part. 105. Notice to the agent of a company is notice to the company. 111. A man charged with crime before a committing magistrate, but discharged on his own recognizance, is not privileged from arrest on civil process while returning from the magistrate's office. 112. When one has been induced to sell goods by means of false pretences, he cannot recover them from one who has bona them from the fraudulent vendor. fide purchased and obtained possession of 113. If the circumstances attendant upon a sale and delivery of personal property are such as usually and naturally accompany such a transaction, it cannot be declared a legal fraud upon creditors. 114. A stamp impressed upon an instrument by way of seal, is good as a seal, if it creates a durable impression in the texture of the paper. 115. If a party bound to make a payment use due diligence to make a tender, but through the payee's absence from home is unable to find him or any agent authorized to take payment for him, no forfeiture will be incurred through his failure to make a tender. A sixteenth section, a quarter of a mile square, 40 acres. The sections are numbered from one to corner, thus: 106. An employer is not liable to one of thirty-six, commencing at the northeast his employees for an injury sustained by the latter in consequence of the neglect of others of his employees engaged in the same general business. 107. Where a purchaser at a Sheriff's sale has bid the full price of property under the erroneous belief that the sale would divest the property of all liens, it is the duty of the court to give relief by setting aside the sale. 108. When notice of protest is properly sent by mail, it may be sent by the mail of the day of the dishonor; if not, it must be mailed for the mail of the next day; except that if there is none, or it closes at an unseasonably early hour, then notice must be mailed in season for the next possible mail. 109. A powder-house located in a populous part of a city, and containing large quantities of gunpowder, is a nuisance. 110. When the seller of goods accepts at the time of the sale, the note of a third person, unindorsed by the purchaser, in payment, the presumption is that the pay ment was intended to be absolute; and though the note should be dishonored, the purchaser will not be liable for the value of the goods. nwne 6 5 4 3 2 S WS In every system of Weights and Measures it is necessary to have what are called "Standards," as the pound, yard, gallon, &c., to be divided and multiplied into smaller and larger parts and denominations. The definition and construction of these Standards involve philosophical and scientific principles of a somewhat abstruse character, and are made and procured by the legislative department of the govern ment. The nominal Standards in the new system are the METER, the ARE, the LITER, and the GRAM. The only real Standard, the one by which all the other standards are measured, and from which the system derives its name of "Metric," is the METER. THE METER Is used for all measures of length, distance, breadth, depth, heighth, &c., and was intended to be, and is very nearly, one tenmillionth of the distance on the earth's surface from the equator to the pole. It is about 39% inches, or 3 feet, 3 inches and 3 eighths, and is to be substituted for the yard. A cubic Meter (or Kiloliter) is called a stere, and is also used as a standard in certain cubic measures. THE GRAM It is Is the Unit of weight, and is the weight of a cube of pure water, each edge of the cube being one one-hundredth of a Meter. about equal to 15% grains. It is intended as the Standard in all weights, and with its use of what are now called Avoirdupois, divisions and multiples, to supersede the Apothecaries and Troy Weights. ded decimally, and larger units are also Each of the foregoing Standards is diviformed by multiples of 10, 100, &c. The Successive subordinate parts are designated by the prefixes Deci, Centi and Milli; the successive muitiples by Deka, Hecto, Kilo and Myria; each having its own numerical signification, as will be more clearly seen in the tables hereinafter given. The terms used may, at first sight, have a formidable appearance, seem difficult to pronounce, and to retain in memory, and to be, therefore, objectionable; but with a little attention and use, the apprehended difficulty will be found more apparent than real, as has been abundantly proved by experience. The importance, also, of conformity in the use of commercial terms, on the part of the United States, with the practice of the many nations in which the already been adopted, must greatly oversystem, with its present nomenclature, has balance the comparatively slight objection alluded to. The denominations less than the Are, including the Meter, are used in specifying the contents of surfaces of small extent; the terms Centare, Are and Hectare, in expressing quantities of land surveyed or measured. The above table may, however, be continued beyond the Meter, thus: [A LITER, the standard of Measures of Capacity, usually in a cylindrical form, is equivalent to a cubic Decimeter, or the one-thousandth part of a cubic Meter, the contents of which are about one quart.] The Kiloliter, or STERE, is a cubic Meter, and is used as a unit in measuring firewood and lumber. cause the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed, shall be recognized in the construction of contracts, and in all legal proceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States, the equivalents of the weights and meas Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be law-ures expressed therein in terms of the meful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection, be tric system; and said tables may be lawfully used for computing, determining and expressing, in customary weights and measures, the weights and measures of the metric system. |