Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 15T. and J.W. Johnson, law booksellers, 1869 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... bills , & c . , to certain persons upon certain trusts , and that the trustees accepted the assignment , whereby the ... bill of the plaintiffs they were and still are indebted to the defendant in the sum of 2007. , being the amount of ...
... bills , & c . , to certain persons upon certain trusts , and that the trustees accepted the assignment , whereby the ... bill of the plaintiffs they were and still are indebted to the defendant in the sum of 2007. , being the amount of ...
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... bill in equity for an account of partnership transactions , and that the money awarded was for a demand which could not be sued for in the courts of law in this country , therefore no action was maintainable on the judgment ; secondly ...
... bill in equity for an account of partnership transactions , and that the money awarded was for a demand which could not be sued for in the courts of law in this country , therefore no action was maintainable on the judgment ; secondly ...
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... bill was for the specific performance of an agreement , which is a matter entirely of equitable jurisdiction . But it is a general rule , that if a partnership account be settled , and a balance struck by due authority , that balance ...
... bill was for the specific performance of an agreement , which is a matter entirely of equitable jurisdiction . But it is a general rule , that if a partnership account be settled , and a balance struck by due authority , that balance ...
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... bill , and having in their hands money belonging to A. When the bill became due S. presented it for payment to A. , who having refused pay- ment , S. paid himself the amount out of the funds of M. and Co. remaining in his hands , and ...
... bill , and having in their hands money belonging to A. When the bill became due S. presented it for payment to A. , who having refused pay- ment , S. paid himself the amount out of the funds of M. and Co. remaining in his hands , and ...
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... bill for 2001. , which Burton had dis- counted with his bankers , Kensington and Co. They became bankrupts before the maturity of the bill , having then in their hands a balance upon Burton's account to the amount of 310l . The bill ...
... bill for 2001. , which Burton had dis- counted with his bankers , Kensington and Co. They became bankrupts before the maturity of the bill , having then in their hands a balance upon Burton's account to the amount of 310l . The bill ...
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Page 89 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 65 - ... until she hath moored at anchor twenty-four hours in good safety; and upon the goods and merchandises, until the same be there discharged and safely landed.
Page 510 - ... to whom the cause and all matters in difference between the parties were referred, and subject to the special case, the costs of the action...
Page 85 - ... that no creditor having security for his debt, or having made any attachment in London, or any other place, by virtue of any custom there used, of the goods and chattels of the bankrupt, shall receive upon any such security or attachment more than a rateable part of such debt, except in respect of any execution or extent served and levied by seizure upon, or any mortgage of or lien upon any part of the property of such bankrupt before the bankruptcy...
Page 56 - ... such house or building shall be held, and such land occupied, and the rent for the same actually paid, for the term of one whole year at the least...
Page 524 - ... their destination. If they should be lost or injured by the grossest negligence of the carrier or his servants, or stolen by them, or by thieves in collusion with them, the owner would be unable to prove either of these causes of loss. His witnesses must be the carrier's servants; and they, knowing that they could not be contradicted, would excuse their masters and themselves.
Page 394 - ... to the use of X. and Y. for a term of five hundred years without impeachment of waste on the trusts hereinafter declared and subject thereto to the use of the first and other sons of John M.
Page 21 - The learned judge overruled the objection : and a verdict was found for the plaintiff on the first count, and for the defendant on the second.
Page 595 - In a private action for slander of a common person, if JS publish that he hath heard JN say, that JG was a traitor or thief ; in an action of the case, if the truth be such, he may justify.
Page 90 - ... (the act of God, the king's enemies, restraint of princes and rulers, fire, and all and every the dangers and accidents...