A Practical Treatise on the Law of Contracts, Not Under Seal: And Upon the Usual Defences to Actions Thereon |
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... lease of a house , re- quiring possession to be given on the 25th July , and a definitive answer within six weeks . The plaintiff accepted the proposal , offering possession on the 1st August . The defendant afterwards , and before the ...
... lease of a house , re- quiring possession to be given on the 25th July , and a definitive answer within six weeks . The plaintiff accepted the proposal , offering possession on the 1st August . The defendant afterwards , and before the ...
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... lease or agreement for a lease not signed by the lessor , see Richardson v . Gifford , 1 Ad . & E. 52 ; Cardwell v . Lucas , 2 M. & W. 111 . ( 2 ) See Saunderson v . Griffith , 5 B. & C. 913 , 915 ; per Bayley and Hol- royd , Js . , and ...
... lease or agreement for a lease not signed by the lessor , see Richardson v . Gifford , 1 Ad . & E. 52 ; Cardwell v . Lucas , 2 M. & W. 111 . ( 2 ) See Saunderson v . Griffith , 5 B. & C. 913 , 915 ; per Bayley and Hol- royd , Js . , and ...
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... lease , becomes tenant from year to year ; subject in the first case to the stipulations which were to have been embodied in the lease ; and in the second to the terms of the expired demise , so far as they can respectively apply . So ...
... lease , becomes tenant from year to year ; subject in the first case to the stipulations which were to have been embodied in the lease ; and in the second to the terms of the expired demise , so far as they can respectively apply . So ...
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... lease , by which it was stipulated that the tenants on quitting the farm should not sell or take away any of the manure in the fold , but should leave it to be expended on the land by the landlord or his succeeding tenant . The lease ...
... lease , by which it was stipulated that the tenants on quitting the farm should not sell or take away any of the manure in the fold , but should leave it to be expended on the land by the landlord or his succeeding tenant . The lease ...
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... , 2 B. & Ad . 889 ; and see Atlee v . Backhouse , 3 M. & W. 648 . ( x ) Stracy v . The Bank of England , 6 Bing . 754 ( y ) Wilkinson v . Byers , 1 Ad . & E. 106 . " If A. lease land to B. at will ( OF THE CONSIDERATION . 45 Newman Walters.
... , 2 B. & Ad . 889 ; and see Atlee v . Backhouse , 3 M. & W. 648 . ( x ) Stracy v . The Bank of England , 6 Bing . 754 ( y ) Wilkinson v . Byers , 1 Ad . & E. 106 . " If A. lease land to B. at will ( OF THE CONSIDERATION . 45 Newman Walters.
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Page 300 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing...
Page 657 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Page 507 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 299 - Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and seven, all leases, estates, interests of freehold, or terms of years, or any uncertain interest of, in, to or out of any messuages, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, made or created by livery and seisin only, or by parol, and not put in writing, and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only...
Page 83 - ... the subject-matter, as by the known usage of trade or the like, acquired a peculiar sense distinct from the popular sense of the same words; or unless the context evidently points out that they must, in the particular instance and in order to effectuate the immediate intention of the parties to that contract, be understood in some other special and peculiar sense.
Page 155 - That no Action shall be maintained whereby to charge any Person upon any Promise made after full Age to pay any Debt contracted during Infancy, or upon any Ratification after full Age of any Promise or Simple Contract made during Infancy, 'unless such Promise or Ratification shall be made by some Writing signed by the Party to be charged therewith.
Page 656 - For no country ever takes notice of the revenue laws of another. " <The objection, that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant, sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant. It is not for his sake, however, that the objection is ever allowed; but it is founded in general principles of policy, which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice, as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may so say. The principle of public policy...
Page 788 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Page 790 - The first count of the declaration, upon which alone the question arises, stated that, in consideration that the plaintiff, at the request of the defendant, had bought of the defendant a horse for the sum of £30, the defendant promised that it was sound and free from vice.
Page 805 - ... all actions of account, and upon the case, other than such accounts as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their factors or servants, all actions of debt grounded upon any lending or contract without specialty...