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... given day , it is not enough to take the value of the stock on that day if it have risen in the mean time , but the highest value as it stood at the time of the trial ; there being no offer of the defendant to replace it in the inter ...
... given day , it is not enough to take the value of the stock on that day if it have risen in the mean time , but the highest value as it stood at the time of the trial ; there being no offer of the defendant to replace it in the inter ...
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... given in the course of a voyage , though it be executed on land , and under scal . 3 T. R. 267 5. The Admiralty Court has jurisdiction over the question of freight , claimed by a neutral master against the captor , who has taken the ...
... given in the course of a voyage , though it be executed on land , and under scal . 3 T. R. 267 5. The Admiralty Court has jurisdiction over the question of freight , claimed by a neutral master against the captor , who has taken the ...
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... given to the captain , he is not answerable for any of them . Farmer v . Davies . 1 T. R. 108 1 B. & P. 105 But where the captain contracts for 12. Where several persons join in an the goods , though they are furnished affidavit , their ...
... given to the captain , he is not answerable for any of them . Farmer v . Davies . 1 T. R. 108 1 B. & P. 105 But where the captain contracts for 12. Where several persons join in an the goods , though they are furnished affidavit , their ...
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... given day should be paid by the trustee to the insolvent ; an agreement made be- tween the insolvent and a creditor , even after that day , that the latter should sign the deed and the former pay the remainder of the whole debt , " is ...
... given day should be paid by the trustee to the insolvent ; an agreement made be- tween the insolvent and a creditor , even after that day , that the latter should sign the deed and the former pay the remainder of the whole debt , " is ...
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... given applicable to the bad count also . Williams v . Breedon . 1 B. & P. 329 8. Where a verdict is given for a greater sum than the amount of the damages laid in the declaration , and for that cause a writ of error is brought , the ...
... given applicable to the bad count also . Williams v . Breedon . 1 B. & P. 329 8. Where a verdict is given for a greater sum than the amount of the damages laid in the declaration , and for that cause a writ of error is brought , the ...
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Page 246 - But, except in certain cases, where technical expressions, having grown by long use into law, are required to be used, the same sense is to be put on the words of an indictment which they bear in ordinary acceptation...
Page 166 - ... as she should by deed or will appoint, and in default of appointment, to the use of...
Page 457 - Officer, cause the same to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels...
Page 337 - That in every information or indictment to be prosecuted against any person for wilful and corrupt perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court, or before whom, the oath was taken, (averring such court or person or persons to have competent authority to administer the same...
Page 193 - C., for life ; remainder to trustees to preserve contingent remainders ; remainder to the first and other sons of the said Lord C.
Page 220 - Where the law presumes the affirmative of any fact, the negative of such fact must be proved by the party averring it in pleading. So where any act is required to be done by one, the omission of which would make him guilty of a criminal neglect of duty, the law presumes the affirmative, and throws the burthen of proving the negative on the party who insists on it.
Page 18 - Where an affidavit is sworn by any person who appears to the officer taking the affidavit to be illiterate or blind, the officer shall certify in the jurat that the affidavit was read in his presence to the deponent, that the deponent seemed perfectly to understand it.
Page 20 - ... revest in the vendor, so as to avoid the attachment, by the vendee's having countermanded the purchase by letter to his agent, dated before such delivery, though not received till afterwards, the vendor assenting to take back the goods.
Page 332 - ... particularly describing and ascertaining the nature of the said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed...
Page 279 - Every insurance on alien property by a British subject must be understood with this implied exception, that it shall not extend to cover any loss happening during the existence of hostilities between the respective countries of the assured and the assurer.