1. (a) What is a contract? (b) What is the difference between a simple and a special contract? (c) What contracts can be made by a minor? When and how can he ratify them? (d) If a person makes a contract to work for one year and breaks it after working six months can he collect six months' wages? (e) Give illustrations of six different kinds of contracts.
  2. (a) When is it necessary that contracts be in writing? (b) In what case is a failure of consideration a good defence to a contract? (c) Is a consideration required to make an offer binding? (d) Is the delivery of goods essential to make a sale complete?
  3. (a) What are the different kinds of warranties? (b) Suppose A should buy goods and pay for them, but not take them away, and afterward B should buy them and take them away—could A recover the goods from B?
  4. (a) What is the difference between a public and a private carrier? (b) Must a public carrier take everything offered? (c) What rules of liability apply to common carriers, and how can they be modified?

[PREPARING COPY FOR THE PRESS AND PROOF-READING]

I. PREPARING COPY

Our purpose in these few lessons is to give some explicit directions as to the general make-up of manuscripts intended for printing. Every person who has even a business card or a circular to print should have a knowledge of the common phraseology of a printing house.

As to paper, the size in most common use for manuscripts is what is known as letter. The sheets in any case should be of uniform size. Avoid all eccentricity and affectation in the preparation of your manuscript, or "copy," as printers call it. The more matter-of-fact and businesslike it is the better.

If at all possible have your manuscript type-written, and under no circumstances should you roll the sheets when preparing them for the mails. There are a number of large publishing houses which positively refuse to touch rolled manuscripts. The very first impression created by such a manuscript is one of extreme irritation. A rolled proof is pretty nearly as discouraging, yet many printers still follow the annoying practice of rolling their proofs.