Chapter XLVII

§1. How are the municipal or civil laws distinguished from the fundamental or political law?

§2. What are statute laws?

§3. What is the common law? Is it law in this country?

§4. What are the rights of person? Personal security? Personal liberty? How are they guarantied?

§5. How may a man protect himself when in danger of personal injury? What remedy for violence committed?

§6. How far may a man go in defending himself or his property? What is such killing called?

§7. How are we protected in our good names? What is slander?

§8. What is libel? Which is considered the greater injury? For which is a person liable in both a civil and criminal suit?

§9. What is the rule of the common law in the case of a criminal action for libel? What is the reason for this principle?

§10. What distinction do some make between cases of public and private prosecution for libel?

§11. Does the common law still prevail in this country? How has it been modified?

§12. How is personal liberty secured? What is the nature of the writ of _habeas corpus_?

§13. What is liberty of conscience? How is it secured?

§14. Is this right secured to the same extent in England?

§15. What is meant by the right of property? By what is it protected?