Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With Tables of the Names of Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 14J. Butterworth and Son, 1810 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 149 - ... which shall happen or arise between masters or mistresses and servants in husbandry, who shall be hired for one year or longer, or which shall happen or arise between masters and mistresses and artificers, handicraftsmen, miners, colliers, keelmen, pitmen, glassmen, potters, and other labourers employed for any certain time, or in any other manner...
Page 181 - Judge declined to nonsuit, and directed a verdict for the amount claimed to be entered for the plaintiff, with leave to the defendant to move to enter a nonsuit or verdict.
Page 125 - The law, being to judge of an act, deed, or bargain, consisting of divers parts, containing the will and intent of the parties, all tending to one end, doth judge of the whole, and gives every part his office to make up that intent, and doth not break the words in pieces.
Page 161 - ... thing, whether the prejudice he suffers be owing to an act of the master, induced by motives of advantage to himself, malice to the owner, or a disregard to those laws which it was the master's duty to obey, and which (or it would not be barratry) his owners relied upon his observing.
Page 204 - ... within marriage. But if the issue be born within a month or a day after marriage between parties of full lawful age, the child is legitimate.
Page 568 - ... on the bill to the prejudice of that person, he cannot afterwards proceed against him. As to the taking part payment, no person can object to it, because it is in aid of all the others who are liable upon the bill : but here the holder did something more ; he took a new bill from the acceptor, and was to keep the original bill till the other was paid.
Page 362 - Insurance duly stamped as aforesaid, after the same shall have been underwritten, or to require any additional Stamp Duty by reason of such Alteration, so that such Alteration be made before Notice of the Determination of the Risk...
Page 94 - Court to quash the indictment, for the inconvenience which may arise at the trial from joining different counts against different offenders ; but where to the offences so charged in different counts there may be the same plea and the same judgment, there is no authority for saying that such joinder in one indictment is bad in point of law; nor is there any legal incongruity on the face of it to warrant us in giving judgment for the defendants on demurrer.
Page 591 - Partiality and improper conduct in an arbitrator in making his award without hearing the defendant and his witnesses, cannot be pleaded in bar to an action on the bond, conditioned for the performance of the award, but is only matter for application to the equitable jurisdiction of the court to set aside the award...
Page 229 - A verdict was found for the plaintiff, with leave to the defendants to move to enter a nonsuit, on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury.