§4. Are the marriages in these excepted cases binding? What is the common law on the subject? §5. How, and by whom are marriages solemnized? What regulations exist in some states? Is a license or a notice required in this state? §6. By common law, what right to the personal property does the husband acquire by marriage? §7. Does he acquire an absolute right also to her real estate? How is his right limited? §8. How has this common law rule been changed? Can you tell what the law is in this state? §9. By common law, what liability does a husband incur by marriage? What is coverture? Is this now the law in all the states? Is it in this state? §10. How far is a husband bound for the maintenance of his wife? §11. May they be witnesses for each other? Chapter XLIX. §1. What are the obligations of parents? What is the age of majority? In law, who are infants, or minors? §2. How far, or in what cases, is a father liable for the contracts of a child? §3. Can a minor bind himself by contract? In what cases is he bound? §4. How in cases of rent? How in cases of contracts which he avoids when he comes of age? §5. Are minors answerable for crimes? How in cases of fraud? §6. What right have they to bind themselves as apprentices and servants? By whose consent? §7. Who may bind pauper children? What provision is made for their education? §8. What are the rights of the master and apprentice respectively? §9. When may apprenticeships be dissolved? §10. How may a hired servant forfeit his wages? For what may he be dismissed? For what cause released from his service? §11. What are the mutual liabilities of master and servant? Chapter L. §1. By whom, and in what ways, may real estate be taken, held, and conveyed? Have aliens this right? §2. What is it to _devise_ property? What is a or testamen? Define testator, and intestate. §3. Who may bequeath property? What special rights to bequeath property are given in some states? What is a nuncupative will? §4. How has the right of married women to bequeath property been extended? §5. How is a will executed? §6. In what different ways may a will be revoked? §7. What is the effect of the subsequent birth of a child? What else have some states provided? §8. What is a codicil? Its effect? §9. How is a will proved? What are letters testamentary, and letters of administration? §10. What is meant by the _descent_ of property? Is the rule of descent uniform in the states? To whom, generally, does it descend first? §11. If any children of the intestate are dead, how does it descend? Give an example. §12. If all the children are dead, how do the grand-children share? Is this state an exception to the rule? §13. Do real and personal estate generally come under the same rule? Chapter LI. §1. What is the benefit of a deed of real estate? What is expressed in a deed? How is it executed?