The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, Courts of Session, Teinds, and Exchequer, and the Jury and Justiciary Courts, Volume 29Michael Anderson, 1857 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... question of very great import- ance , and also of great delicacy . It is a question of great delicacy , with reference to the exclusion of evidence tendered by the prisoner to establish his plea of alibi ; and , secondly , it is one of ...
... question of very great import- ance , and also of great delicacy . It is a question of great delicacy , with reference to the exclusion of evidence tendered by the prisoner to establish his plea of alibi ; and , secondly , it is one of ...
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... question resolves very much into the construc- tion of a contract of service . It was brought before this Court last Monday in another case , and has been the subject of my serious consideration . The complaint presented proceeded on ...
... question resolves very much into the construc- tion of a contract of service . It was brought before this Court last Monday in another case , and has been the subject of my serious consideration . The complaint presented proceeded on ...
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... question - Can we get into the merits , and say there was no desertion , if we look into the proof ? This is an important question . Your Lordship has expressed your opinion , and I quite concur in that opinion . I do not enter upon the ...
... question - Can we get into the merits , and say there was no desertion , if we look into the proof ? This is an important question . Your Lordship has expressed your opinion , and I quite concur in that opinion . I do not enter upon the ...
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... question of vesting is to be taken as finally settled by the Lord Ordinary . The reclaiming notes bring therefore before us only two points , which are totally separate questions , and in no respect dependent the one on the other . The ...
... question of vesting is to be taken as finally settled by the Lord Ordinary . The reclaiming notes bring therefore before us only two points , which are totally separate questions , and in no respect dependent the one on the other . The ...
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... question whether , during the seven years previous to the opera- tions by the pursuer , the gates had been kept ... question , to have the same state of pos- session continued during the discussion of the question of right of road in the ...
... question whether , during the seven years previous to the opera- tions by the pursuer , the gates had been kept ... question , to have the same state of pos- session continued during the discussion of the question of right of road in the ...
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Page 32 - Kingdom, whether within the king's dominions or without, it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace of the county or place where the person so charged shall be, to take cognizance of the offence so charged, and to proceed therein as if the same had been committed within the limits of his ordinary jurisdiction...
Page 56 - And I consent to the registration hereof in the books of council and session, or any other judges books competent; therein to remain for preservation; and thereto I constitute my procurators, &c.
Page 263 - An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a Public Nature ;' and ' An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways.
Page 85 - Person shall have resided for Five Years continuously in such Parish or Combination, and shall have maintained himself without having Recourse to common begging, either by himself or his Family, and without having received or applied for Parochial Relief...
Page 23 - ... and canal communication, or which have the terminus, station, or wharf of the one near the terminus, station, or wharf of the other, shall afford all due and reasonable facilities for receiving and forwarding all the traffic arriving by one of such railways or canals by the other, without any unreasonable delay, and without any such preference...
Page 76 - Bankrupt of all debts and obligations contracted by him, or for which he was liable, at the date of the Sequestration...
Page 148 - The sequestration shall, at the date thereof, be equivalent to an arrestment in execution and decree of forthcoming, and to an executed or completed poinding ; and no arrestment or poinding executed of the funds or effects of the bankrupt on or after the sixtieth day prior to the sequestration shall he effectual ; and such funds or effects, or the proceeds of such effects, if sold, shall be made forthcoming to the trustee...
Page 23 - Railway, as they shall think fit ; provided that all such Tolls be at all Times charged equally to all Persons, and after the same Rate, whether per Ton per Mile or otherwise, in respect of all Passengers, and of all Goods or Carriages of the same Description, and conveyed or propelled by a like Carriage or Engine passing only over the same Portion of the Line of Railway under the same Circumstances...
Page 24 - Clerk for the Time being, shall and they are hereby authorized and required, when necessary, to frame Rules and Regulations and Forms of Procedure calculated to Jurisdiction of despatch the Business in the easiest and most expeditious Man- Pali<* Courts.
Page 23 - ... by the other, without any unreasonable delay, and without any such preference or advantage, or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid...