The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-30

that such . contract or conveyance shall not be void. but that the insane | person may recover from the vendec. | and those claiming under him, the | difference between the market value of | the real estate at the time of the sale and the price paid therefor with inter- 1 est>thereon and shall have a lien to se- | cure the same. Another act prevents e justice of the Supreme Court from par | ticipating in that court in the decision of any cause in which the judge sat in | the court below.
 An act to amend Section 26sO of the | Code provides that usurious contracts | can not be enforced. either at law or l in equity, except as to the principal and | that the borrower of money at usurious l rates, shall never be required to pay l more than the principal sum borrowed, | and that If any interest has been paid, the same shall be deducted from the | principal.
 An act to prevent the encouragement | of litigation makes 1t unlawful for any l attorney either before or after action brought. to offer any inducement to any person placing the litigation in the l of which he Is a member, for the purpose of bringing suit or making | claims against another. or to employ | a person to search for and procure l clients to be brought to such attorney l This act is the result of the recom- mendation of this Association. An at l torney who violates its provisions is | guilty of a misdemeanor, and must be | debarred, and the officer for the attor- | ney Is guilty of a misdemeanor. l Another act prohibits a judge of | probate, or his clerk. or any register in | chancery from preparing or assisting in preparation of any instrument or docu- ment which is to be heard or deter
 mined by the probate judge or register. Another act provides for the execu- | ton of conveyances by married men whose wives are insane |tamending in 1 thls respect the act of February g. | 1899 Declaring in substance, if the married woman has been declared legally insane, or confined in an insane hospital, and the superintendent cer- titles in writing to the probate judge nf the residence of the husband that such woman is permanently insane, that upon the record of such certificate
 the husband may convey all or any
 of his real estate. not including the
 homestead, by mortgage or deed of
 trust, as though he were single. What
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 would seem that as to insane women, married before the passage of the act, that the legislature could not, in this way, fit ie husbands estate from her claim of dover, especially as no pro- vision is made for protecting the insane wife or securing her dover interest out of the purchase money.
 An act requires the defendant. in criminal cases, to deny the existence of any incorporation mentioned in the indictment by sworn plea, before it shall become necessary to prove the existence of the corporation.
 An act to prevent a deficit in the State Treasury by consolidating the various funds therein and pro rating the amount of the several appropria- tions." which had the effect, if there were not sufficient money in the treas- urv to pay all in full, to scale down the appropriations approximately, was an exhibition of wise statesmanship to prevent the evils of oVer-zealous ap- propriation of public money beyond the ability of the treasury to bear.
 Arkansas.
 Tn marriages solemnized after. the passage of the act, the husband shall not be liable for the ante-nuptiaf debts of the wife. except by express written contract.
 Local Boards of Health are authoriz- ed to order the secluston ofpersona in times of epidemics, and a failure to obey the order is made misdemeanor, l punishable by fine of &10 to &Ip0, to which may be added ten days impris- onment.
 If the seducer. pending prosecution against him, marry the woman, pro- secution shall not be terminated, but | shall be suspended, and may be re- vived. If he willfully. and without cause sufficient for divorce. desert or abandon the female. Then, the prosecution may be continued as though the marriage had not taken place; but the wife in that event is not competent witness for the prosecution.
 Another act relieves surgeons, train- ed nurses, -etc., from compulsory dis closure of information acquired from the patient while attending him, which was necessary to enable the physician, surgeon or trained nurse, to properly | perform their duties.
 There Is a sweeping act to punish | pools, trusts and conspiracies to con- | trol prices, regulating the evidence and | All agreements to fix the | price of named articles of manufact- ure. which include most of the things | in common use, and membership in any | association which confederates to fix or limit the amount or quantity of any | article of manufacture, or any product, makes the parties guilty of a con- spiracy to defraud, and fixes the penalty at not less than $200 nor moro than $5. 900 for each offense--the money to go to the school fund.
 An act gives the husband cause of l. action for the wrongful killing of the wife, and entities him to recover damages for the services and compan- ionship of the wife to any amount to which the jury trying the cause may consider him entitled.
 Colorado.
 By 6 recent act in that State, tiree- l Fourths of the jury may concur in the the same effect aS though returned by all the jury: hut when the verdict is returned by legs than the whole number of the jury. the verdict must be signed by each juror therein. do not find any late constitution of Colorado. It is that it's terms are such that .he legislature could lawfully make the above requirement.
 Florida.
 By a recent amendment to a statute .welve men constitute a jury to try capital cases, six to try other criminal ,ases. and six men constitute jury to .ry civil cases. An injured party =