Business Man's Commercial Law Library ..., Volume 2Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919 - Business law |
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Page 454 - Where the instrument is made payable at a bank it is equivalent to an order to the bank to pay the same for the account of the principal debtor thereon.
Page 395 - The author, inventor, or designer, if he be still living [ ], or his widow or children, if he be dead, shall have the same exclusive right continued for the further term of fourteen years, upon recording the title of the work or description of the article so secured a second time, and complying with all other regulations in regard to original copyrights, within six months before the expiration of the first term.
Page 396 - In the several copies of every edition published, on the title page or the page immediately following, if it be a book ; or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design intended to be perfected...
Page 388 - The drawing must show every feature of the invention covered by the claims, and the figures should be consecutively numbered, if possible. When the invention consists of an improvement on an old machine the drawing must exhibit, in one or more views, the invention itself, disconnected from the old structure, and also in another view, so much only of the old structure as will suffice to show the connection of the invention therewith.
Page 400 - SEC. 5. That a certificate of registry shall remain in force for thirty years from its date ; except in cases where the trade-mark is claimed for and applied to articles not manufactured in this, country, and in which...
Page 443 - The seventeenth section enacts that no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise for the price of £10 sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same...
Page 395 - States, addressed to the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, District of Columbia, a printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical composition, engraving, cut.
Page 395 - ... the sole liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing, completing, copying, executing, finishing, and vending the same ; and, in the case of a dramatic composition, of publicly performing or representing it, or causing it to be performed or represented by others.
Page 371 - A patent may also be obtained by any person who, by his own industry, genius, efforts, and expense, has invented and produced any new and original design for a manufacture, bust, statue, altorelievo, or bas-relief; any new and original design for the printing of woolen, silk, cotton, or other fabrics; any new and original impression, ornament, pattern, print, or picture to be printed, painted, cast, or otherwise placed on or worked into any article of manufacture...
Page 359 - ... (2) Tho he have no particular notice that he did any such thing before, yet if it be a beast that is ferae naturae as a lion, a bear, a wolf, yea an ape or monkey, if he get loose and do harm to any person, the owner is liable to an action for the damage, and so I knew it adjudged in Andrew Baker's case, whose child was bit by a monkey that broke his chain and got loose.