... A Treatise on the Law of Contracts ...Charles H. Eson & Company, 1888 - Contracts |
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acceptance acceptor action agreed agreement amount Bank Beav bill of exchange bill of lading Bing bona fide bottomry breach Campb cargo charge chattels contract of sale conveyance court covenant coverture creditor damages debt debtor deed defendant delivered delivery deposit discharge duty entitled Exch executed fraud fraudulent grant held holder husband hypothecation implied indorsement instrument insured intended interest L. J. Ch L. J. Ex land latter lease liable lien loss marriage ment mortgage mortgagor notice owner paid partner partnership party payable payment person plaintiff pledge port possession principal promise promissory note purchase-money purchaser received recover rent sect sell shareholders shares ship sold specific performance stamp Stamp Act statute statute of frauds surety Taunt thereof transfer trustee underwriters unless vendor vessel Vict void voyage warranty wife
Popular passages
Page 423 - A contract for the sale of any goods of the value of £10 or upwards shall not be enforceable by action unless the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold and actually receive the same or give something in earnest to bind the...
Page 79 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 663 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Page 286 - In the case of a company limited by shares no contribution shall be required from any member exceeding the amount if any unpaid on the shares in respect of which he is liable as a present or past member...
Page 756 - ... 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 342 - The wages and earnings of any married woman acquired or gained by her after the passing of this Act in any employment, occupation, or trade in which she is engaged or which she carries on separately from her husband, and also any money or property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary, artistic, or scientific skill...
Page 13 - A mortgagor entitled for the time being to the possession or receipt of the rents and profits of any land as to which no notice of his intention to take possession or to enter into the receipt of the rents and profits thereof shall have been given by the mortgagee...
Page 648 - And all bills, drafts, or orders for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available, or upon any condition or contingency which may or may not be performed...
Page 142 - People, of what Nation, Condition, or Quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners, and of all other Perils, Losses, and Misfortunes, that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment, or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, &c., or any Part thereof...
Page 733 - Provided always that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any subscription or contribution or agreement to subscribe or contribute for or towards any plate, prize or sum of money to be awarded to the winner or winners of any lawful game, sport, pastime or exercise.