The universal cyclopædia of law [electronic resource] : a practical compendium of legal information, comprising nearly 14,000 statements of the law; forms of documents; decisions of the courts; explanations and exceptions; doubtful points; suggestions and advice; and all kinds of copious information in relation to property, real and personal, conveyance, travellers,& hotelkeeper, women and children, auctions and agency, shipping, games, wagers and insurance, divorce and matrimony, arbitrations, wills, executors, and trustees, agreements, deeds and mortgages, securities, sureties, and liabilities, patents and pensions, partnership and corporations, masters, apprentices, and servants, landlord and tenant, working contracts, sales and payments, carriers and railways. &c., &c., &c. : with a full appendix of forms / edited by W.W. Thornton.