A Treatise on the Measure of Damages: Or, An Inquiry Into the Principles which Govern the Amount of Compensation Recovered in Suits at Law ... |
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... COURT OVER THE SUBJECT OF DAMAGES . Respective powers of court and jury over the subject of damages - General division of their functions - The Roman system in this respect - Curious analogies between it and the English system - General ...
... COURT OVER THE SUBJECT OF DAMAGES . Respective powers of court and jury over the subject of damages - General division of their functions - The Roman system in this respect - Curious analogies between it and the English system - General ...
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... court of equity . But of these , so far as they belong to our subject , more particularly hereafter . Blackstone , in his Commentaries , ranks damages among that " species of property that is acquired and lost by suit and judg- ment at ...
... court of equity . But of these , so far as they belong to our subject , more particularly hereafter . Blackstone , in his Commentaries , ranks damages among that " species of property that is acquired and lost by suit and judg- ment at ...
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... Court of New York , " that wherever it recognizes or creates a private right , it gives a remedy for the wilful violation of it . " + " Another species of property , " says Blackstone , § " acquired and lost by suit and judgment at law ...
... Court of New York , " that wherever it recognizes or creates a private right , it gives a remedy for the wilful violation of it . " + " Another species of property , " says Blackstone , § " acquired and lost by suit and judgment at law ...
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... court . " In cases , " said Washington , J. , on the Pennsylvania circuit , + " where a rule can be discovered , the jury are bound to adopt it . That rule is , that the plaintiff should recover so much as will repair the injury ...
... court . " In cases , " said Washington , J. , on the Pennsylvania circuit , + " where a rule can be discovered , the jury are bound to adopt it . That rule is , that the plaintiff should recover so much as will repair the injury ...
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... court re- fused to allow nominal damages , and remitted the case to the jury to say whether the plaintiff's reversionary interest had , in point of fact , been prejudiced . This case , however , does not present any exception to the ...
... court re- fused to allow nominal damages , and remitted the case to the jury to say whether the plaintiff's reversionary interest had , in point of fact , been prejudiced . This case , however , does not present any exception to the ...
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action of trespass actual damage agreement allowed assessed assumpsit Barb bill Bing bond breach brought chattels claim common law compensation Conn consideration considered contract costs court of equity covenant Cowen debt declaration defendant defendant's delivered Denio detinue doctrine entitled to recover equity eviction evidence fixed fraud give given held Hill injury interest judge judgment jury justice land liable liquidated damages Lord Lord Ellenborough Lord Mansfield loss Mass Massachusetts measure of damages Mees ment mesne profits negligence nisi prius nominal damages paid party payment penalty performance person Pick plaintiff principle proved purchase question recoupment recovery refused regard replevin rule of damages says seisin sheriff Smede sold statute stipulated suit sum certain Supra Supreme Court surety sustained tiff tion tort trespass trial trover vendee vendor verdict Verm vindictive damages warranty Wels Wend York
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Page 374 - ... certain time or otherwise, the jury on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest from the time when such debts or sums certain were payable, if such debts or sums be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time...
Page 67 - ... 1. When the debtor has been guilty of no fraud or bad faith, he is liable only for such damages as were contemplated, or may reasonably be supposed to have entered into the contemplation of the parties at the time of the contract.
Page 23 - For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
Page 279 - Court erred in charging that the measure of damages was the difference between the contract price and the market price at...
Page 81 - But the question remains, can the plaintiff then, consistently with the authorities, maintain his action, having been at least equally in fault. The answer is that, supposing that fact ascertained by the jury, but to this extent, that he merely indulged the natural instinct of a child in amusing himself with the empty cart and deserted horse, then we think that the defendant cannot be permitted to avail himself of that fact. The most blamable carelessness of his servant having tempted the child,...
Page 566 - If any party shall be entitled to any compensation in respect of any lands, or of any interest therein, which shall have been taken for or injuriously affected by the execution of the works...
Page 91 - We therefore think that as there is fraud, and damage the result of that fraud, not from an act remote and consequential, but one contemplated by the defendant at the time as one of its results, the party guilty of the fraud is responsible to the party injured.
Page 415 - There is one case in which the sum agreed for must always be considered as a penalty, and that is, where the payment of a smaller sum is secured by a larger.
Page 47 - So if a man gives another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his action, for it is a personal injury. So a man shall have an action against another for riding over his ground, though it do him no damage; for it is an invasion of his property, and the other has no right to come there.
Page 261 - A for not accepting the wheat, that the proper measure of damages was the difference' between the contract price and the market price on the day when the wheat...