Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and Other Courts: From Easter Term, 36 Geo. III. 1796, to [Hilary Term 44 Geo. III. 1804] ... Both Inclusive: with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 3

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Page 334 - But when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 246 - P. 249), and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give no original right of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Page 217 - ... and before the said time when, &c. to wit, on the day and year last aforesaid...
Page 434 - This case has been argued before us, and we are of opinion that the...
Page 27 - WILLIAM, by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, most earnestly commend to your brotherly love the Right Rev.
Page 308 - ... shall be pleaded or given in evidence in any Court, or admitted in any Court to be good, useful or available in law or equity...
Page 186 - Defendant was to make such application ; but if the Court should be of opinion that the Plaintiff was not entitled to recover, and...
Page 16 - their heirs and assigns upon trust, that they or the survivor of them, or the heirs or assigns of such survivor...
Page 105 - ... such offender shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his master, although such chattel, money, or security was not received into the possession of such master otherwise than by the actual possession of his clerk, servant, or other person so employed...
Page 186 - The question for the opinion of the Court was, Whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover in this action?

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