The Law Reports: Common Pleas Division, Reported by ... and in the Court of Appeal by ... 1875-76 -- 1879-80, Volume 2Incorporated Council of Law reporting for England and Wales, 1877 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Act of Parliament action agree alleged amount appears apply Arthur Brown authority bankruptcy bill of lading bonâ fide bound Bramwell cargo carriage Catlow cause cheque Clark & Punchard clause Cockburn Common Pleas Division composition contract costs Court creditors damages debt debtor decision deed defendant's demurrer DENMAN detinue directors discharge enactment entered entitled evidence facts fraud freight Grant ground held Hofmann indorsement injury intended judge judgment jury Justice L. J. Ex land Law Rep lease liable LORD COLERIDGE mast matter ment negligence notice opinion owner paid parties payment Pero Pinheiro person premises present proceedings prospectus provable provisions purchase question railway reason recover reference respect respondent Ringdove rule servant shares shellac sheriff shew shewn ship Solicitors for defendant Solicitors for plaintiff SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY statement of claim statute thereof tion tobacco trial trustees Tunbridge TWYCROSS verdict Vict words YEOVIL
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Page 103 - If any party shall be entitled to any compensation in respect of any lands or of any interest therein, which shall have been taken for or injuriously affected by the execution of the works, and for which the promoters of the undertaking shall not have made satisfaction...
Page 176 - The High Court of Admiralty shall have Jurisdiction over any Claim for the building, equipping, or repairing of any Ship, if at the Time of the Institution of the Cause the Ship or the Proceeds thereof are under Arrest of the Court.
Page 190 - Gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection from any such disorder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds...
Page 258 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 470 - ... not specifying the same shall be deemed fraudulent on the part of the promoters, directors, and officers of the company knowingly issuing the same, as regards any person taking shares in the company on the faith of such prospectus unless he shall have had notice of such contract.
Page 312 - A verdict was found for the plaintiff for £60, leave being given to the defendants to move to set aside the verdict and enter a nonsuit, on the ground that the facts proved by the plaintiff disclosed no cause of action against the defendants.
Page 209 - But when one person lends his servant to another for a particular employment, the servant, for anything done in that particular employment. must be dealt with as the servant of the man to whom he is lent, although he remains the general servant of the person who lent him.
Page 10 - ... to order that all debts owing or accruing from such third person (herein-after called the garnishee) to the judgment debtor shall be attached to answer the judgment debt...
Page 398 - ... may appear best calculated to prevent dangerous accidents, and to provide for the safety and proper discipline of the persons employed in or about the mine...
Page 155 - Any draft or order drawn upon a banker for a sum of money payable to order on demand, which shall when presented for payment purport to be indorsed by the person to whom the same shall be drawn payable...