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... Company E. I. C. S. East India Company's Service N. B. North Britain W. I. West Indies • U. S. United States H. B. M. Her Britannic Majesty H. M. S. Her Majesty's ship J. P. Justice of Peace W. S. Writer to the Signet C. E. Civil ...
... Company E. I. C. S. East India Company's Service N. B. North Britain W. I. West Indies • U. S. United States H. B. M. Her Britannic Majesty H. M. S. Her Majesty's ship J. P. Justice of Peace W. S. Writer to the Signet C. E. Civil ...
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... Company in the year 1838 , partly to facilitate the steam - navigation of that sea . The town is advantageously situated upon a noble promontory , which forms two bays , in the westernmost of which , or " Back Bay , " a place has been ...
... Company in the year 1838 , partly to facilitate the steam - navigation of that sea . The town is advantageously situated upon a noble promontory , which forms two bays , in the westernmost of which , or " Back Bay , " a place has been ...
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... companies and in newspapers , & c . and things affixed to the freehold , or shares in a company seised of real estate , are not within the statute " ( Henley's B. L. 270 ) . The provision only applies to property in hand at the time of ...
... companies and in newspapers , & c . and things affixed to the freehold , or shares in a company seised of real estate , are not within the statute " ( Henley's B. L. 270 ) . The provision only applies to property in hand at the time of ...
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... Company of more than six persons to issue notes payable on demand within London , or sixty - five miles thereof , -but banks beyond that limit may issue bills and notes payable on demand , or otherwise , at the place at which the same ...
... Company of more than six persons to issue notes payable on demand within London , or sixty - five miles thereof , -but banks beyond that limit may issue bills and notes payable on demand , or otherwise , at the place at which the same ...
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... Company , Messrs Hoares and Company , and Messrs Snows and Company , were in existence before the Bank of England . Their business chiefly consists in acting as deposi- taries of money , discounting bills , and officiating as agents for ...
... Company , Messrs Hoares and Company , and Messrs Snows and Company , were in existence before the Bank of England . Their business chiefly consists in acting as deposi- taries of money , discounting bills , and officiating as agents for ...
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Page 202 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 268 - And whereas to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and policy of this nation...
Page 447 - ... all actions of account, and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants, all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty...
Page 348 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 99 - This is no denial of the mathematical proposition that the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts...
Page 202 - That * * * no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer...
Page 202 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto...
Page 452 - ... and shall have employed or shall employ any persons to compose the same, or any volumes, parts, essays, articles or portions thereof, for publication in or as part of the same...
Page 9 - ... or cause or allow to be received, any oath, affidavit or solemn affirmation touching any matter or thing whereof such justice or other person hath not jurisdiction or cognizance by some statute in force at the time being.
Page 68 - ... committed; provided the person or persons so dealing with such bankrupt, or at •whose suit or on whose account such execution or attachment shall have issued, had not at the time of such contract, dealing, or transaction, or at the time of executing or levying such execution or attachment, notice of any prior act of bankruptcy by him committed...