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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... objected to the name of William Arnold being retained in the list of freemen entitled to vote in the election of members for the said city and borough . The facts established by the evidence in the case were these : - The said William ...
... objected to the name of William Arnold being retained in the list of freemen entitled to vote in the election of members for the said city and borough . The facts established by the evidence in the case were these : - The said William ...
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... objected to by the same objector , and on the same grounds ; and the facts relating to them were the same as already set out , excepting that Francis Woodhouse Hollings was qualified to vote as a householder as well as a freeman ; and ...
... objected to by the same objector , and on the same grounds ; and the facts relating to them were the same as already set out , excepting that Francis Woodhouse Hollings was qualified to vote as a householder as well as a freeman ; and ...
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... objected to the name of Lawrence Lawson Brown being retained on the register of voters for the parish of Hunstonworth in the said division . The name of the said Lawrence Lawson Brown appeared on the said register , as follows : - Name ...
... objected to the name of Lawrence Lawson Brown being retained on the register of voters for the parish of Hunstonworth in the said division . The name of the said Lawrence Lawson Brown appeared on the said register , as follows : - Name ...
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... objected , on the part of the said John Stephenson Robson , that , in all the said cases , the description of the qualifications as described on the register was defective , inasmuch as the local situation of the lands out of which the ...
... objected , on the part of the said John Stephenson Robson , that , in all the said cases , the description of the qualifications as described on the register was defective , inasmuch as the local situation of the lands out of which the ...
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... objection ( still persisted in on the part of the said John Stephenson Robson ) , that , notwith- standing his said amendments , the description of the qualifications , as described in the register , was defective . It was also objected ...
... objection ( still persisted in on the part of the said John Stephenson Robson ) , that , notwith- standing his said amendments , the description of the qualifications , as described in the register , was defective . It was also objected ...
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Page 219 - 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 123 - 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...