... A Treatise on the Law of Contracts ...Charles H. Eson & Company, 1888 - Contracts |
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... a Treatise on the Law of Contracts Horace Gay Wood,Horace Smith,Charles Greenstreet Addison No preview available - 2015 |
... a Treatise on the Law of Contracts Horace Gay Wood,Horace Smith,Charles Greenstreet Addison No preview available - 2018 |
... a Treatise on the Law of Contracts Horace Gay Wood,Horace Smith,Charles Greenstreet Addison No preview available - 2015 |
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acceptance agent agreement amount authority bailee bailment Bank banker behalf benefit bill bill of lading bind Bing bound breach broker Campb cargo charge charter-party chattels cheque common carrier common law common seal consideration contract corporation court covenant coverture creditor custom damages debt deed defendant delivered delivery demised premises discharge distrain distress duty employer enforced entered entitled Exch executed freight held hiring husband implied indorsement infant L. J. Ch L. J. Ex land landlord latter lease lessee lessor liable lien loss mandamus master ment negligence obligation owner paid partner partnership party payment performance plaintiff possession principal promise promissory notes purchaser received recover render rent responsible seal sect servant ship shipowner Smith statute statute of frauds tenant term third person tion tract trade trustees unless vessel Vict wife writing
Popular passages
Page 266 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 698 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 276 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any promise made after full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification made after full age of any promise or contract made during infancy, whether there shall or shall not be any new consideration for such promise or ratification after full age.
Page 374 - ... 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 708 - Goods, Merchandise, or other Things whatsoever on board any other Ship or Boat ; be answerable in Damages in respect of Loss of Life or personal Injury, either alone or together with Loss or Damage to Ships, Boats, Goods, Merchandise, or other Things, to an aggregate Amount exceeding Fifteen Pounds for each Ton of their Ship's Tonnage...
Page 131 - The advance of money by way of loan to a person engaged or about to engage in any business on a contract with that person that the lender shall receive a rate of interest varying with the profits...
Page 767 - We hold the true rule to be that whatever the passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience according to the habits or wants of the particular class to which he belongs, either with reference to the immediate necessities, or to the ultimate purpose, of the journey, must be considered as personal luggage.
Page 699 - Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration, representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel, shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same, notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped...
Page 256 - ... shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 797 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...