THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



will not do any act to hinder or prevent the 

 collection of the same by the said M. D. 



Witness my hand, this April 10th, 1863. 



L. C. 



Assignment of Account Indorsed Thereon. In 

 consideration of $1, value received, I hereby 



sell and assign to M. D. the within account 

 which is justly due from the within named 

 X. E., and I hereby authorize the said M. D. 

 to collect the same. 



Troy, April 10th, 1863. L. C. 



INTEREST LAWS AND STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS. 



*Under seal, 10 years, flf made in theState; if outside, 2 years. jNolawand no decision regarding judg 

 ments. Unless a different rate is expressly stipulated. || Under seal, 20 years, ! Store accounts; other 

 accounts 3 years, tt New York has by a recent law legalized any rate of interest on call loans of 5,000 or up- 

 ward, on collateral security. Jt Becomes dormant, but may be revived. Six years from last item, (a) Judg- 

 ments 15 years from last execution issued, (b) Actions on merchants' accounts must be commenced in two years 

 from January 1 following last item. (c)Ten years in New Castle County, twenty years in Kent and Sussex coun- 

 ties, Delaware, (d) Twenty years in Courts of Record; in Justice's Court 10 years, (e) Negotiable notes G years, 

 non-negotiable notes 17 years. (/) Ceases to be a lien after that period, (g) Store accounts 3 years, (h) Unless 

 execution issue thereon. May be kept alive indefinitely by issuing execution every five years. On foreign 

 judgments 1 year, (i) Is a lien on real estate for only 10 years, (j) Any rate, but only 6 per cent, can be collected 

 at law. 



Inns and Innkeepers. An Inn is a 



public house for the lodging and entertain- 

 ment of travelers for compensation, and the 

 person who conducts such house is called an 

 innkeeper. To enable him to obtain his com- 

 pensation the law invests an innkeeper with 

 peculiar privileges, giving him a lien upon the 

 personal property brought into the inn by the 

 guest, and on the other hand holds him to a 

 strict degree of responsibility to the guest if 

 the goods are lost or stolen. 



The essential character of an inn is, that it 

 is open for all who may desire to visit it ; 

 hence, a mere private boarding house, or lodg- 

 ing house, cannot, in any proper sense, be re- 

 garded as an inn ; nor will a coffeehouse or 

 restaurant come within the term. A person 

 who entertains travelers occasionally, although 

 he may receive compensation, is not an inn- 

 keeper, nor liable as such, provided he does 

 not hold himself out in that character. 



An Innkeeper is bound to receive all trav- 

 elers and wayfaring persons who may apply to 

 him, and to provide entertainjnent for them, 

 if he can accommodate them, unless they arc 

 drunk, or disorderly, or afflicted with conta- 

 gious diseases. If a person be disorderly he 

 may not only refuse to receive him, but even 

 after he has received him may eject him from 

 the house. 



He is further bound to exercise a high degree 

 of care over the person and property of his 

 guests, and is held to a strict responsibility ior 

 all loss or damage which may occur through 

 his negligence. This responsibility extends 

 not only to his own acts, and the acts of his 

 servants, but also to the acts of his other 

 guests. The liability of an innkeeper .com- 

 mences from the time the goods are brought 

 into the inn or delivered to any of the inn- 

 keeper's servants ; and a delivery into the per- 

 sonal custody of the innkeeper is not necessary 



