10. If a stranger wishes you to bear a note for him, be well satisfied
before you do so, that he is on an equality with you; and in
presenting the note state to the party the relationship you stand
towards him, and what you know and believe about him; for strangers
are entitled to redress for wrongs, as well as others, and the rules
of honor and hospitality should protect him.
CHAPTER II.
The Party Receiving a Note Before Challenge.
1. When a note is presented to you by an equal, receive it, and read
it, although you may suppose it to be from one you do not intend to
meet, because its requisites may be of a character which may readily
be complied with. But if the requirements of a note cannot be acceded
to, return it, through the medium of your friend, to the person who
handed it to you, with your reason for returning it.
2. If the note received be in abusive terms, object to its reception,
and return it for that reason; but if it be respectful, return an
answer of the same character, in which respond correctly and openly to
all interrogatories fairly propounded, and hand it to your friend,
who, it is presumed, you have consulted, and who has advised the
answer; direct it to the opposite party, and let it be delivered to
his friend.
3. You may refuse to receive a note, from a minor, (if you have not
made an associate of him); one that has been posted; one that has been
publicly disgraced without resenting it; one whose occupation is
unlawful; a man in his dotage and a lunatic.
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