Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law, [1845-1856]: Heretofore Condensed by Thomas Sergeant and Thomas M'Kean Pettit, Now Reprinted in Full, Volume 4T. & J.W. Johnson, 1852 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 147
... verdict was found for the plaintiff , for 20007. damages , subject to the opinion of the court upon the following case : - The plaintiff was the registered owner of the ship Royal William , at the time of her being wrecked and sold at ...
... verdict was found for the plaintiff , for 20007. damages , subject to the opinion of the court upon the following case : - The plaintiff was the registered owner of the ship Royal William , at the time of her being wrecked and sold at ...
Page 157
... verdict is to be entered for such amount as the court shall direct . The court to be at liberty to draw such inferences and conclu- sions from the facts of the case , as the jury might have drawn . The case was argued in Michaelmas term ...
... verdict is to be entered for such amount as the court shall direct . The court to be at liberty to draw such inferences and conclu- sions from the facts of the case , as the jury might have drawn . The case was argued in Michaelmas term ...
Page 187
... verdict was taken for the plaintiff , subject to the opinion of this court upon a case to be stated by a barrister . The facts stated in the case relevant to the questions submitted to the court , were that Thomas Phillips was ...
... verdict was taken for the plaintiff , subject to the opinion of this court upon a case to be stated by a barrister . The facts stated in the case relevant to the questions submitted to the court , were that Thomas Phillips was ...
Page 193
... verdict was found for the plaintiff , by consent of the parties , subject to an order of nisi prius , by which it was referred to a barrister , to state a case for the opinion of this court , and to state , among other things , what ...
... verdict was found for the plaintiff , by consent of the parties , subject to an order of nisi prius , by which it was referred to a barrister , to state a case for the opinion of this court , and to state , among other things , what ...
Page 217
... verdict , establishing each of these defences , the demand consisting of a disputed account running over a period of twelve years . But , in this action , he was put to his election . Had the right to plead double been a right existing ...
... verdict , establishing each of these defences , the demand consisting of a disputed account running over a period of twelve years . But , in this action , he was put to his election . Had the right to plead double been a right existing ...
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Page 159 - the proceeds of the wreck of the Royal William were not money had and received by the defendant to the use of the plaintiff, for want of privity between them—and that the wreck and cargo having been sold through the defendant, as the agent of Captain Frazer, and
Page 883 - of lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid to the said Thomas King, or to his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns, for which payment, to be well and faithfully made, we jointly bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, and each of us severally, separately and apart from the other of us, bindeth himself,
Page 241 - the writ of trial or writ of inquiry, that the action was really brought to try a right besides the mere right to recover damages for the trespass or grievance for which the action shall have been brought, or that the trespass or grievance in respect of which the action was brought,
Page 911 - drawn upon him as aforesaid; thereupon, afterwards, to wit, on the 19th of June 1845, in consideration that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, would accept the said bill of exchange so drawn by the said TC Lee upon the plaintiff as aforesaid, and would
Page 685 - in Michaelmas term last, obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the grounds of misdirection and that the verdict was against evidence. He referred to Dickinson v. Valpy, 10 B. & C. 128, 5 M. & R. 126; Tredwen v. Bourne, 6 M. & W. 461; Hawtayne v. Bourne, 7 M. & W. 595;
Page 899 - the court should be of opinion that no warranty could be implied from the circumstances above disclosed. Bylea, Serjt., in Michaelmas term last, obtained a rule nisi to enter a verdict for the plaintiff pursuant to the leave reserved, or for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection. He relied on Street v.
Page 745 - report. The rule was not made upon the ordinary consent rule. This motion is founded upon the 18th section of the 1 & 2 Viet. c. 110, which enacts " that all decrees and orders of courts of equity, and all rules of courts of common law, and all orders of the Lord Chancellor,
Page 485 - Serjt., in Michaelmas term last, obtained a rule nisi to enter a verdict for the defendant on the first issue as to the first count, or for a new trial, and to arrest the judgment as to the second count, or for a venire de novo. He cited Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium, 168
Page 723 - Serjt., on behalf of Joseph Stocks, in Michaelmas term, 1847, obtained a rule calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the rule of the 12th of June, and all proceedings had thereon, should not be set aside, with costs, on the ground of the improper suppression by the plaintiff of material facts which ought
Page 51 - shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future parliament for the county, or for the riding, parts, or division of the county, in which such lands or tenements shall be respectively situate.