Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to Kindred Cases and Authorities, Volume 1William Gould, 1872 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 68
... decision of the Court of Queen's Bench , making absolute a rule to enter a nonsuit . The following is the substance of the pleadings and case : - First count : That defendant was chairman of the local board of health of Brixham , and in ...
... decision of the Court of Queen's Bench , making absolute a rule to enter a nonsuit . The following is the substance of the pleadings and case : - First count : That defendant was chairman of the local board of health of Brixham , and in ...
Page 71
... decision of the Court of Queen's Bench , making the rule absolute to enter a nonsuit , was erroneous . All that was left to the jury was , whether the conversation spoken to by the plaintiff took place or not : this they found in the ...
... decision of the Court of Queen's Bench , making the rule absolute to enter a nonsuit , was erroneous . All that was left to the jury was , whether the conversation spoken to by the plaintiff took place or not : this they found in the ...
Page 87
... decision , -it being conceded that he had acted bona fide and to the best of his judgment . Quare , whether the contract was satisfied by the tender of raisins of " fair average quality " generally , or whether it required that they ...
... decision , -it being conceded that he had acted bona fide and to the best of his judgment . Quare , whether the contract was satisfied by the tender of raisins of " fair average quality " generally , or whether it required that they ...
Page 91
... decision of the defendant , [ 36 and that decision was to be final between the parties . He was , in truth , exercising the functions of a judge . Sir J. B. Karslake , Q.C. , Sir G. Honyman , Q.C. , and Watkin Williams , in support of ...
... decision of the defendant , [ 36 and that decision was to be final between the parties . He was , in truth , exercising the functions of a judge . Sir J. B. Karslake , Q.C. , Sir G. Honyman , Q.C. , and Watkin Williams , in support of ...
Page 93
... decision on the matter ; and for any mistake which he might make he clearly would not be liable . The case of Jenkins v . Betham ( 1 ) is obviously distinguishable . There , two persons were employed to value , as between an incoming ...
... decision on the matter ; and for any mistake which he might make he clearly would not be liable . The case of Jenkins v . Betham ( 1 ) is obviously distinguishable . There , two persons were employed to value , as between an incoming ...
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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 395 - 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 732 - 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 394 - 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 692 - ... 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.
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