The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...E. B. Ince, 1852 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 314 - Has, directly or indirectly, by himself or his partner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of the council.
Page 56 - And be it enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any Court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 245 - Person deceased; and in every such Action the Jury may give such Damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such Death to the Parties respectively for whom and for whose Benefit such Action shall be brought...
Page 67 - ... a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court.
Page 101 - Be it known that as well in own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in part or in all...
Page 180 - Schedule as Creditors, or claiming to be Creditors for the same respectively, or for which such Persons shall have given Credit to such Prisoner before the Time of filing such Petition, and which were not then payable...
Page 160 - ¿£110 damages, with leave to move to enter a verdict for the defendant if the court should be of opinion that, under these circumstances, the action was not maintainable.
Page 31 - Cooke, if she shall survive him, and her assigns, for and during the term of her natural life, without impeachment of or for any manner of waste, and from and after the determination of the respective estates for life hereinbefore limited to them, the said B.
Page 146 - And by s. 2, it is enacted, that no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 31 - ... with or without power of revocation, to be sealed and delivered in the* presence of two or more credible witnesses, or by her last will and testament in writing, or any writing of appointment in the nature of a will, shall direct or appoint...