Tit. 2. Cases about justice in Contracts Q. 1. Must I in all cases do as I would be done by? Q. 2. Is a son bound by the Contracts which parents or guar- ibid. Q. 3. If parents disagree, how is the child to act? .... Q. 4. Is one obliged by a Contract made in ignorance or mis- ibid. Q. 7. Am I obliged by covenanting words without a cove- ibid. Q. 9. May I give money to a judge or magistrate, to hire him Q. 11. If I promise money to an officer or robber under a ibid. .... Q. 16. If I say I will give one this or that,' am I bound to ibid. Q. 17. Doth a mental promise not uttered oblige? Q. 19. May any thing otherwise unlawful become a duty PAGE Q.21. Am I bound by a Contract without witness or legal form? 301 Q. 26. May I give money to servants or officers to assist my Q. 28. May a bishop or pastor take money for sermons, sa- Q. 29. May I disoblige another of his promise made to me?.. Q. 31. Doth a promise bind, when the cause or reason proveth ibid. Q. 33. Or if it make it injurious to a third person ? ibid. Q. 3. May I ask more in the market than the worth? Q. 4. How shall the worth of a commodity be judged of? Q. 5. May I conceal the faults, or make a thing seem better than it is, by setting the best side outward, adorning, &c. 308 Q. 6. If I was deceived, or gave more than the worth, may I Q. 7. If I foresee a cheapness of my commodity, (as by com- PAGE Q. 12. May I take advantage of the buyer's ignorance? . ibid. Q. 16. What to do in cases of doubtful equity?. Q. 18. If the thing bought, (as ambergris, jewels, &c.) prove Q. 19. What if the title prove bad, which was before un- Q. 20. If a change of powers overthrow a title speedily, who Tit. 4. Cases about Lending and Borrowing Q. 2. May one drive a trade with borrowed money, when Q. 4. May one that breaketh, secure that to his wife and Q. 6. May I in necessity break my day of payment? Q. 7. May I borrow of one to keep day with another? Q. 10. May a forfeiture, pledge, or mortgage be kept, on ibid. PAGE Q. 1. Is it lawful to lay wagers about the truth of our discourses? ibid. Q. 3. May one give money to see games or activities, bear- ibid. Q. 4. Is it lawful to play for money at cards, dice, lottery, &c.? ibid. Q. 5. Or at games of activity, as bowling, shooting, run- Q. 6. If the loser prove angry and unwilling to pay, may I Tit. 6. Cases about Losing and Finding ibid. ibid. Q. 1. Must we seek out the loser to restore what we find?.. ibid. ibid. ibid. Q. 4. May I not keep it, if no owner be found? Q. 5. If others be present when I find it, may I not conceal, Q. 6. Who must stand to the loss of goods trusted to another? ibid. Tit. 7. Directions to Merchants, Factors, Travellers, Chap- lains, that live among heathens, infidels, or Papists?.... Q. 1. Is it lawful to put one's self or servants, specially young Q. 3. Is it lawful for young gentlemen to travel into other Tit. 2. Cases about Oppression, especially of tenants ....... Q. I. Is it lawful to buy land of a liberal landlord, when the Q. 2. May one take as much for his land as it is worth? ibid. ..... ibid. Q. 6. If I cannot relieve the honest poor without raising the rent of tenants that are worthy of less charity, may I do it? 360 Q. 1. Are all men bound to fare alike? Or what is excess? ibid. Q. 4. May we not in building, diet, &c. be at some charge for our delight, as well as for necessity? Q. 5. When are recreations too costly? Q. 8. When is housekeeping too costly? ibid. |