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Page 88
If not delivered buyer to be allowed 1s . per cwt . In bags . Bags included in
weight . Customary allowances . · Discount 1 per cent . Prompt two months from
date of final landing : ” and in consideration thereof the defendant promised the
plaintiff ...
If not delivered buyer to be allowed 1s . per cwt . In bags . Bags included in
weight . Customary allowances . · Discount 1 per cent . Prompt two months from
date of final landing : ” and in consideration thereof the defendant promised the
plaintiff ...
Page 106
... and sought to wind up the company . In this he failed ; and he was sued for
calls . Pending the litigation , the directors allowed him to retire upon conditions
which were not those named in the deed or in the proposal agreed to at the
meeting .
... and sought to wind up the company . In this he failed ; and he was sued for
calls . Pending the litigation , the directors allowed him to retire upon conditions
which were not those named in the deed or in the proposal agreed to at the
meeting .
Page 107
... if the means of notice to all appear sufficient , so as to raise a clear
presumption of knowledge and acquiescence , and the arrangement is left
unimpeached by any one for a great many years , the shareholder who has been
allowed to retire ...
... if the means of notice to all appear sufficient , so as to raise a clear
presumption of knowledge and acquiescence , and the arrangement is left
unimpeached by any one for a great many years , the shareholder who has been
allowed to retire ...
Page 114
Green . after so long an acquiescence , be allowed to rip up the transaction and
call upon the defendants to pay back the money , without at least restoring them
the shares the cancellation of which formed the basis of the arrangement which ...
Green . after so long an acquiescence , be allowed to rip up the transaction and
call upon the defendants to pay back the money , without at least restoring them
the shares the cancellation of which formed the basis of the arrangement which ...
Page 167
... the plaintiff also claims in respect of the extra quantity of coals purchased for
the donkey - engine . It is like the case of extra hands hired to pump , which
would be allowed : Wilson v . Bank of Victoria . ( ) The purpose was , “ to preserve
more ...
... the plaintiff also claims in respect of the extra quantity of coals purchased for
the donkey - engine . It is like the case of extra hands hired to pump , which
would be allowed : Wilson v . Bank of Victoria . ( ) The purpose was , “ to preserve
more ...
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Page 318 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there, anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 393 - But nothing herein contained shall render any person who in any criminal proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any offence punishable on summary conviction, competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself or herself...
Page 730 - January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and that every will re-executed or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of this act be deemed to have been made at the time at which the same shall be so re-executed, republished, or revived...
Page 193 - The executors and administrators of every person, who, as executor, either of right or in his own wrong, or as administrator, shall have wasted or converted to his own use, any goods, chattels, or estate, of any deceased person, shall be chargeable in the same manner as their testator or intestate would have been, if living.
Page 220 - ... on the other hand, the promisee may, if he thinks proper, treat the repudiation of the other party as a wrongful putting an end to the contract, and may at once bring his action as on a breach of it ; and in such...
Page 133 - ... and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff.
Page 392 - Provided that this Act shall not render competent any party to any suit, action, or proceeding individually named in the record, or any lessor of the plaintiff or tenant of premises sought to be recovered in ejectment, or the landlord or other person in whose right any defendant in replevin may make cognizance, or any person in whose immediate and individual behalf, any action may be brought or defended, either wholly or in part, or the husband or wife of such persons respectively...
Page 690 - ... that it could not have been the intention of the parties that the habendum should operate according to the words.
Page 117 - While, if the Court .should be of opinion that there was no evidence to go to the jury of their having employed Champion to make the levy in this particular place.
Page 18 - Merchandises until the same be there discharged and safely landed ; and it shall be lawful for the said Ship, &c., in this Voyage to proceed and sail to and touch and stay at any Ports or Places whatsoever without Prejudice to this Insurance.