Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas and in the Exchequer Chamber: From 1856 ... [to 1865], Volume 1T. & J.W. Johnson & Company, 1857 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 21
... intended to abolish all charters then existing . The 1st section , however , expressly reserves them , except in so far as they may be inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of that act . It was not intended to operate any new ...
... intended to abolish all charters then existing . The 1st section , however , expressly reserves them , except in so far as they may be inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of that act . It was not intended to operate any new ...
Page 59
... intended to be a condition essential to the validity of the notice , that it should be delivered to the postmaster within the hours appointed by the postmaster for that purpose . If the postmaster had declined to receive the notice ...
... intended to be a condition essential to the validity of the notice , that it should be delivered to the postmaster within the hours appointed by the postmaster for that purpose . If the postmaster had declined to receive the notice ...
Page 67
... intended to appeal to the House of Lords for the settlement thereof . The affidavit of one of the clerks to the plaintiff's attorney stated , that he did on the 5th of November instant serve Richard Hartley Kennedy , of , & c . , with a ...
... intended to appeal to the House of Lords for the settlement thereof . The affidavit of one of the clerks to the plaintiff's attorney stated , that he did on the 5th of November instant serve Richard Hartley Kennedy , of , & c . , with a ...
Page 77
... intended for his ( a ) Which enacts " that no action , suit , or other proceeding by any creditor or creditors of any such company or body , shall , so far as concerns or may be necessary for the recourse of such creditor or creditors ...
... intended for his ( a ) Which enacts " that no action , suit , or other proceeding by any creditor or creditors of any such company or body , shall , so far as concerns or may be necessary for the recourse of such creditor or creditors ...
Page 83
... intended to give the court any discretion where the judgment - creditor has done all that is required of him . Indeed , it would seem absurd to hold that the 13th section gives the court a discretion , when the 10th section had already ...
... intended to give the court any discretion where the judgment - creditor has done all that is required of him . Indeed , it would seem absurd to hold that the 13th section gives the court a discretion , when the 10th section had already ...
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Page 187 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards 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 payment, or that some note or memorandum in writing of the said bargain be made and signed by the parties to be charged by such contract, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized.
Page 595 - ... is the language of the law. Though he may use the water while it runs over his land, he cannot unreasonably detain it, or give it another direction, and he must return it to its ordinary channel when it leaves his estate. Without the consent of the adjoining proprietors, he cannot divert or diminish the quantity of water which would otherwise descend to the proprietors below, nor throw the water back upon the proprietors above, without a grant or an uninterrupted enjoyment of twenty years, which...
Page 595 - ... without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other proprietors above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment.
Page 303 - It has been contended that that is erroneous, and that it should have been left to the jury to say whether there was any such implied contract.
Page 315 - Olyn, for the plaintiff, contended that, under the 87th section of the Common Law Procedure Act 1854 (17 & 18 Viet. c. 125...
Page 447 - ... 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...
Page 111 - Judge reserved leave to the defendant to move to enter the verdict for him if the Court should be of opinion that...
Page 43 - ... if the qualification consist of a rent-charge, then the names of the owners of the property out of which such rent is issuing, or some of them, and the situation of the property.
Page 561 - ... appear in such copy or extract without proof of the signature thereto or of the seal of office affixed thereto...
Page 303 - And it is further submitted, that it is an invariably true proposition, that, wherever one of the parties to a special contract not under seal has. in an unqualified manner, refused to perform his side of the contract, or has disabled himself from performing it by his own act, the other party has, thereupon, a right to elect to rescind it, and may, on doing so, immediately sue on a quantum meruit for anything which he had done under it previously to the rescission ; this it is apprehended is established...