The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, Volume 1

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Sir Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead
Sweet & Maxwell, 1919 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 209 - So an assignment of a bare right to file a bill in equity for a fraud committed upon the assignor will be held void as contrary to public policy and as savoring of the character of maintenance, of which we shall presently speak.
Page 483 - A custom for all the inhabitants of a parish to play at all kinds of lawful games, sports and pastimes in the close of A, at all seasonable times of the year, at their free will and pleasure, is good.
Page 131 - We consider that a promise by a client to pay money to a counsel for his advocacy, whether made before, or during, or after the litigation, has no binding effect ; and, furthermore, that the relation of counsel and client renders the parties mutually incapable of making any legal contract of hiring and service concerning advocacy in litigation.
Page 909 - Court as expressed in the head-note was that " where a person possesses a legal right a Court of Equity will not interfere to restrain him from enforcing it, though, between the time of its creation and that of his attempt to enforce it he has made representations of his intention to abandon it.
Page 383 - ... parcels of the same respectively for the improvement thereof, such turf covered with grass, fit for the pasture of cattle, as hath been fit and proper to be so used, at all times of the year, as often and in such quantity as occasion hath required...
Page 635 - The question is one of fact, depending wholly on evidence, and if the evidence does not establish the survivorship of any one, the law will treat it as a matter incapable of being determined.
Page 65 - Leach thus defines an equitable assignment : ' In order to constitute an equitable assignment, there must be an engagement to pay out of a particular fund.
Page 211 - in trust for such objects of benevolence and liberality as the trustee in his own discretion shall most approve, cannot be "supported as a charitable legacy; and [*80 is therefore a trust for the next of kin.
Page 41 - No precise form of words is necessary to constitute an award; it is sufficient if the arbitrator express by it a decision upon the matter submitted to him.
Page 687 - Therefore, where a witness had been cross-examined as to what the plaintiff said in a particular conversation, it was held, that he could not be re-examined as to other assertions, made by the plaintiff in the same conversation, but not connected with the assertions to which the cross-examination related ; although the assertions as to which it was proposed to re-examine him were connected with the subject-matter of the suit.3 § 468.

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