Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to Kindred Cases and Authorities, Volume 6

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Page 278 - ... where a contract is made with reference to certain anticipated circumstances, and where, without any default of either party, it becomes wholly inapplicable to or impossible of application to any such circumstances, it ceases to have any application; it cannot be applied to other circumstances which could not have been in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made.
Page 284 - ... but when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided...
Page 133 - ... the committal for trial of the prisoner if the crime of which he is accused had been committed in England, the police magistrate shall commit him to prison, but otherwise shall order him to be discharged.
Page 257 - ... all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises and ship, &c., or any part thereof...
Page 213 - Term, when a verdict was found for the defendants, leave being reserved to the plaintiff to move to enter a verdict for...
Page 134 - Revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master.
Page 328 - Provided always, that if upon the Trial of any Person indicted for such Misdemeanor it shall be proved that he obtained the Property in question in any such Manner as to amount in Law to Larceny, he shall not by reason thereof be entitled to be acquitted of such Misdemeanor; and no such Indictment shall be removable by Certiorari; and no Person tried for such Misdemeanor shall be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for Larceny upon the same Facts.
Page 801 - First, after the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses, I give devise and bequeath to my daughter Agatha Riple wife of Mathias Riple, all of my property both real and personal.
Page 139 - The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have all powers necessary or proper for performing the obligations of Canada or of any Province thereof, as part of the British Empire, towards foreign countries, arising under treaties between the Empire and such foreign countries.
Page 276 - A verdict was entered for the defendant ; leave being reserved to the plaintiff to move to enter a verdict for him.

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