| George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...the account that is discharged, or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against...current are settled, and particularly cash accounts." But although there be no actual appropriation of a payment to a particular account, yet there may be... | |
| Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...the account that is discharged or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against...settled, and particularly cash accounts. When there ha* been a continuation of dealings, in what way can it be ascertained whether the specific balance... | |
| Henry Cary - Partnership - 1827 - 426 pages
...sum, but how is that an acquittal of an old debtor (?«)?" But in the former case it had been said, " when there has been a continuation of dealings, in...that balance appear by the account to have been made ? you are not to take the account backwards, and strike the balance at the head insteadofthefootofit... | |
| William Theobald - Agency (Law) - 1832 - 324 pages
...the account which is discharged or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against...that principle all accounts current are settled. And the same principle applies to those accounts current in which, after the death either of any of the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 518 pages
...the account that is discharged or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against each other." This (6) 1Q.BD 178. (7) 2 B. & Aid. 39. (8) 63 LJ Ch. 401, 40G ; 20 Ch. D. 6У2, 702. (9) 1 J. ic H.... | |
| William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1838 - 802 pages
...side of the account, which is discharged by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against each other." Per Sir W. Grant, MR Clayton's case, 1 Mer. 572. See further on this subject Devaynes v. Noble, 1 'Mer.... | |
| John Collyer - Partnership - 1840 - 1016 pages
...the account, that is discharged or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against...current are settled, and particularly cash accounts." Now, it may be inferred from these observations, that in accounts current of a different nature, where... | |
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