The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, Volume 77

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Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead
Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1905 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 494 - per ton of 20 cwt., all gross, the latter not to exceed twenty tons, without consent of the captain, in full of all port-charges and pilotage as customary (the act of God, the Queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigations
Page 448 - given to societies of this description are not liable to stamp-duty. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, reserving to the defendant leave to move to enter a nonsuit, if the Court should be of opinion that a stamp was requisite, directed the jury to find for the plaintiffs. The jury having accordingly found for the plaintiffs
Page 754 - made and passed in a session of Parliament holden in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled " An Act for consolidating in one Act certain provisions usually inserted in Acts with respect to the constitution of Companies incorporated for carrying on undertakings of a public nature;
Page 293 - of September, 1844, in and by certain articles of agreement, dated, to wit, the day and year aforesaid, and then made and entered into by and between the plaintiff of the one part, and the defendant of the other part, the plaintiff agreed to sell, and the defendant agreed to purchase, for the sum of
Page 371 - part of the learned Judge, that, if they thought Chidley had been guilty of negligence, the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages 447/. Is. Cockburn now moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence: The finding
Page 787 - each to the defendant, to and for the use of such curate ; and whereas theretofore, to wit, on the 1st of September, 1844, in consideration that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, would, in case the Bishop of the diocese in which the said parish was then situated, to wit, the
Page 744 - are inapplicable to the present case, for there the claim was against a third party, here the plaintiff seeks to establish a right as against himself. The words " by some consent or agreement expressly made or given for that purpose by deed or writing,
Page 332 - in consideration that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, would go to L. for the purpose of marrying him, the defendant promised the plaintiff to marry her in a reasonable time after her arrival at L." At the trial, the Judge gave the plaintiff leave to amend the declaration, under the 3 & 4 Will.
Page 264 - that no person shall be allowed to have any vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire, for or by reason of any trust estate or mortgage, unless such trustee or mortgagee be in actual
Page 334 - leave being reserved to the defendant to move to enter a nonsuit, if the Court should be of opinion that the amendment ought not to have been allowed, and that, without the amendment, the declaration was insufficient

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