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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... decided on this Act ; but I find none which are exactly analogous to the present , in relation to pending Chancery proceedings . However , we all know the common case where the Statute of Limitations is not pleadable in the Court of ...
... decided on this Act ; but I find none which are exactly analogous to the present , in relation to pending Chancery proceedings . However , we all know the common case where the Statute of Limitations is not pleadable in the Court of ...
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... decided , and that different persons had subscribed to make up the amount of the stakes . The learned Baron , at the close of the evidence , left it to the jury to find for the plaintiff £ 100 , in case they were of opinion that this ...
... decided , and that different persons had subscribed to make up the amount of the stakes . The learned Baron , at the close of the evidence , left it to the jury to find for the plaintiff £ 100 , in case they were of opinion that this ...
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... decided ; and I told them that if the race had been " lost , or that it was within the enactment of the Act , and not " within the exception , they should find for the defendant . " They accordingly found for the plaintiff for £ 50 ...
... decided ; and I told them that if the race had been " lost , or that it was within the enactment of the Act , and not " within the exception , they should find for the defendant . " They accordingly found for the plaintiff for £ 50 ...
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... decided by each of the three Superior Courts of Law in West- minster , there is , to say the least of it , a clear expression of opinion that , in an action brought against a stakeholder for the deposit , the plaintiff , in order to ...
... decided by each of the three Superior Courts of Law in West- minster , there is , to say the least of it , a clear expression of opinion that , in an action brought against a stakeholder for the deposit , the plaintiff , in order to ...
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... decided that plaintiff had lost . The plaintiff , how- ever , refused to abide by their decision , and claimed the whole £ 140 from the defendant , and gave him notice that , if he paid it over to the third party , he the plaintiff ...
... decided that plaintiff had lost . The plaintiff , how- ever , refused to abide by their decision , and claimed the whole £ 140 from the defendant , and gave him notice that , if he paid it over to the third party , he the plaintiff ...
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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...