The Law Reports: Court of Common Pleas, Volume 6

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Incorporated council of law reporting for England and Wales, 1871 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 66 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 563 - 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 159 - Reports, if any, shall order the same to be entered in their Journals, and shall give the necessary Directions for confirming or altering the Return, or for issuing a Writ for a new Election, or for carrying the Determination into execution, as Circumstances may require.
Page 252 - ... which the judgment is recovered, operating as a change of remedy from its being of a higher nature than before. But a judgment recovered in any form of action is still but a security for the original cause of action, until it be made productive in satisfaction to the party ; and therefore till then it cannot operate to change any other collateral concurrent remedy which the party may have.
Page 612 - Act, and any other person proving or claiming to prove a debt under such receiving order, an account shall be taken of what is due from the one party to the other in respect of such mutual dealings, and the sum due from the one party shall be set off against any sum due from the other party, and the balance of the account, and no more, shall be claimed or paid on either side respectively...
Page 488 - ... to show that one or both of the contracting parties were agents for other persons and acted as such agents in making the contract, so as to give the benefit of the contract on the one hand to and charge with liability on the other the unnamed principals and this whether the agreement be or be not required to be in writing by the Statute of Frauds; and this evidence in no way contradicts the written agreement.
Page 61 - Company being wound up may, in lieu of receiving cash, shares, policies, or other like interests, or in addition thereto, participate in the profits of, or receive any other benefit from the purchasing Company.
Page 525 - I can only say that if the parts which have been copied cannot be separated from those which are original without destroying the use and value of the original matter, he who has made an improper use of that which did not belong to him must suffer the consequences of so doing.
Page 137 - The law does not allow the exposition to revoke or alter, by construction of general words, any particular statute, where the words...
Page 354 - Borough" shall mean any borough city, place, or combination of places, not being a county as herein-before defined, returning a member or members to serve in Parliament: " Dwelling house " shall include any part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling, and separately rated to the relief of the poor...

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