Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 67T. & J.W. Johnson, 1871 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... verdict for the defendant . S. Carter , for the plaintiff , now moved for a new trial , on the ground of misreception of evidence , misdirection , that the verdict was against evidence , and on the ground of the absence of a material ...
... verdict for the defendant . S. Carter , for the plaintiff , now moved for a new trial , on the ground of misreception of evidence , misdirection , that the verdict was against evidence , and on the ground of the absence of a material ...
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... verdict must be for the defendant . The objection urged is , first , that , assuming that to be so , it afforded no defence , — and secondly , if it did afford a defence , that it was not admissible under not guilty . Before the new ...
... verdict must be for the defendant . The objection urged is , first , that , assuming that to be so , it afforded no defence , — and secondly , if it did afford a defence , that it was not admissible under not guilty . Before the new ...
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... verdict . Rule refused . It is libellous to publish a correct account of judicial proceedings , if accompanied with com- ments and insinuations tending to asperse a man's character : Thomas v . Crosswell , 7 John- son , 264 ...
... verdict . Rule refused . It is libellous to publish a correct account of judicial proceedings , if accompanied with com- ments and insinuations tending to asperse a man's character : Thomas v . Crosswell , 7 John- son , 264 ...
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... verdict was found for the defendant on the first count and for the plaintiffs on the second . Peacock , on behalf of the defendant , now moved to arrest the judg- ment . - The second count discloses no cause of action . It merely ...
... verdict was found for the defendant on the first count and for the plaintiffs on the second . Peacock , on behalf of the defendant , now moved to arrest the judg- ment . - The second count discloses no cause of action . It merely ...
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... verdict . ] The thing relied on as a disturbance of the plain- tiffs ' right , must be something that is equivalent to a setting up a new ferry . MAULE , J. - Carrying passengers and goods across the river in the manner here alleged ...
... verdict . ] The thing relied on as a disturbance of the plain- tiffs ' right , must be something that is equivalent to a setting up a new ferry . MAULE , J. - Carrying passengers and goods across the river in the manner here alleged ...
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Page 397 - Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 277 - Shipped in good order and well conditioned by in and upon the good ship called the whereof is master for this present voyage and now riding at anchor in the and bound for os being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 397 - Action the Jury may give such Damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such Death to the Parties respectively for whom and for whose Benefit such Action shall be brought...
Page 817 - Any Contract which if made between private Persons would be by Law required to be in Writing, and...
Page 801 - B. for life, remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male, remainder to the future sons of C.
Page 395 - ... or why there should not be a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence ; or why the judgment should not be arrested.
Page 297 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, the one of which three bills being accomplished, the other two to stand void, and so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen.
Page 493 - The lord chief justice overruled the objection, reserving leave to the defendant to move to enter a verdict for him, or a nonsuit.
Page 731 - That, although afterwards, and before the commencement of this suit, to wit, on the 1st of...
Page 15 - But when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract," so that it is no excuse if that which happens might have been provided against by the contract.