Irish Common Law Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer, Exchequer Chamber, and Court of Criminal Appeal, Volumes 8-9Hodges and Smith, 1860 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Counsel on his behalf also 66 read in evidence a notice dated 27th of January 1858 , addressed by plaintiff to defendant , requiring him to pay him the whole of the stakes deposited , as winner of the race ; also a letter dated 3rd of ...
... Counsel on his behalf also 66 read in evidence a notice dated 27th of January 1858 , addressed by plaintiff to defendant , requiring him to pay him the whole of the stakes deposited , as winner of the race ; also a letter dated 3rd of ...
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... Counsel objected to the portion of the direction which left it to the jury to find £ 50 , if the money had not been paid over , & c . His Lordship reported that , on this part of the case , the plaintiff's Counsel cited an authority ...
... Counsel objected to the portion of the direction which left it to the jury to find £ 50 , if the money had not been paid over , & c . His Lordship reported that , on this part of the case , the plaintiff's Counsel cited an authority ...
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... Counsel called for a nonsuit , upon the ground that the wager and race were illegal , within the meaning of the 8 & 9 Vic . , c . 109 , s . 18 , and not within the exception in that clause ; and they insisted that the question was for ...
... Counsel called for a nonsuit , upon the ground that the wager and race were illegal , within the meaning of the 8 & 9 Vic . , c . 109 , s . 18 , and not within the exception in that clause ; and they insisted that the question was for ...
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... Counsel is that , assuming that the money in question might , under certain circumstances , be recoverable by the plaintiff , still the question remains , whether , at the time of bringing the present action , the original transaction ...
... Counsel is that , assuming that the money in question might , under certain circumstances , be recoverable by the plaintiff , still the question remains , whether , at the time of bringing the present action , the original transaction ...
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... Counsel also relied on Gatty v . Field ( a ) . action to recover stakes won by the plaintiff , to the value of £ 24 . The defendant pleaded the illegality of the transaction . On demurrer , it was admitted by plaintiff's Counsel that ...
... Counsel also relied on Gatty v . Field ( a ) . action to recover stakes won by the plaintiff , to the value of £ 24 . The defendant pleaded the illegality of the transaction . On demurrer , it was admitted by plaintiff's Counsel that ...
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Page 3 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been...
Page 11 - Viet. c. 109, s. 18, it is enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 446 - Viet. c. 99. s. 2. enacts that, " On the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or other proceeding in any Court of justice, or before any person having by law, or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence...
Page 308 - That every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute...
Page 289 - Act, no attorney or solicitor, nor any executor, administrator, or assignee of any attorney or solicitor, shall commence or maintain any action or suit for the recovery of any fees, charges, or disbursements, for any business done by such attorney or solicitor...
Page 3 - Be it therefore enacted . . . that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 288 - ... and which bill shall either be subscribed with the proper hand of such Attorney or Solicitor, (or, in the case of a partnership, by any of the partners, either with his own name, or with the name or style of such partnership), or of the executor, administrator, or assignee of such Attorney or Solicitor, or be enclosed in or accompanied by a letter subscribed in like manner referring to such bill...
Page 342 - I am glad to fasten myself in some measure on his great authority, and say that, when I look upon these acts of parliament, I regard them all in the light of contracts made by the legislature, on behalf of every person interested in any thing to be done under them...
Page 446 - ... the parties thereto, and the persons in whose behalf any such suit, action, or other proceeding may be brought or defended, shall, except as hereinafter excepted, be competent and compellable to give evidence, either viva voce or by deposition, according to the practice of the court, on behalf of either or any of the parties to the said suit, action, or other proceeding.
Page 164 - Act, 1854, which enacts, that, "in all causes in any of the superior courts, by order of the court or a judge, the plaintiff may, with the declaration, and the defendant may, with the plea, or either of them by leave of the court or a judge may at any other time...