 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...that the merchant was answerable for the deceit of his factor, though not criminaliter yet civiliter; for seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it is more reasonable that he who employs and puts a trust and confidence in the deceiver should be a loser than... | |
 | Thomas Charles Morton - Vendors and purchasers - 1836 - 526 pages
...for, seeing somebody must be a loser by the deceit, it is more reason that he who employs and puts trust and confidence in the deceiver should be a loser, than a stranger. And see Grammer v. Nixon, 1 Str. 653 ; Southerns v. How, Cro. Jac. 468, 471 ; Hillv. Gray, 1 Stark. N.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 922 pages
...that the merchant was answerable for the deceit of his factor, though not criminaliter, yet civiliter; for, seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it is more reason that he that employs and pub a trust and confidence in the deceiver should be a loser than a stranger. And upon this opinion... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 996 pages
...the merchant was answerable for the deceit of his factor, though not criminaliter, yet civiliter ; for, seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit,...the deceiver should be a loser, than a stranger." [Cresswell, J. There, the factor entered into a contract with the plaintiff for his employer. Here,... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 866 pages
...criminalit&r yet civilitlr; for seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it was more reasonable that he that employs and puts a trust and confidence...and upon this opinion the plaintiff had a verdict. Salk. 239, pi. 25. Ruled by Holt on evidence at nisi print ,• but for this vide tit. Merchant and... | |
 | William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 732 pages
...merchant was answer[*303] able for the deceit of his factor, though not *criminaliter yet civiliter ; for seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it is more reason that he that employs and confides in the deceiver should be a loier than a stranger.(u) 4. The principal is never criminally... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
..." The merchant is answerable for the deceit of his factor, through not criminaliter yet civiliter ; for seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it is more reasonable that he who employs and puts a trust in the deceiver, should be a loser than a stranger."... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 668 pages
...misrepresenting the article. The principal was held liable ; " for," said the lord chief justice, " seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it is more reasonable Farmers and Mechanics' Bank, of Kent Co., v. Butchers and Drovers' Bank that he who employs... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 730 pages
...Co. v. Sehuyler.\\ It was explicitly laid down by Lord Holt, in Hern v. Nichols.^ He there said : " For seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it is more reason that he that employs and puts trust and confidence in the deceiver should be a loser than a stranger," " and upon this the plaintiff... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - Torts - 1875 - 830 pages
...that the merchant was answerable for the deceit of his factor, though not criminal,itfr, yet cwili/er; for seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit,...And upon this opinion the plaintiff had a verdict. Among the American cases, Jeffrey 1 The author published the substance of the following consideration... | |
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... for seeing somebody must be a loser by this deceit, it is more reason that he that employs and puts a trust and confidence in the deceiver should be a loser, than a stranger. 
