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| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 784 pages
...right and justice, than that if a man, by his words or acts, intentionally causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces...belief, so as to alter his own previous position, he is concluded from averring to the con* trary, if injury must result to him whom he has misled. The... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...the leading authority, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on the belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 932 pages
...established in Pirkftrd v. Sears (8), that if a man, by his words or acts, causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act in that belief, so as to alter his own previous condition, the former is estopped from denying the... | |
| Ireland. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 646 pages
...(h) ; Cruchley v. Clarence (f) ; Stone v. Marsh (k). In Pichard v. Sears (/) Lord Denman says : — " "Where one by his " words or conduct wilfully causes...him to act on that belief so " as to alter his own position, the former is concluded from averring " against the latter a different state of things as... | |
| Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...this occasion Lord Dcuman, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said ; " The rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief •o as to alter... | |
| Graham Willmore, Frederick Luard Wollaston, Henry Davison - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 810 pages
...surmised. But the rule oi is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another : believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to ar: that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is conclndf. from averring against... | |
| John William Smith - 1840 - 530 pages
...b' A. & E. 475. " The rule of law is clear," said Lord Denman, delivering the judgment of the court in that case, " that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter... | |
| John William Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 612 pages
...6 A. & E. 475. " The rule of law is clear," gaid Lord Denman, delivering the judgment of the court in that case. " that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter... | |
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