Principles of the Common Law: An Elementary Work Intended for the Use of Students and the Profession |
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... person's the nature of a person's rights which will entitle him right which to maintain an action for their infringement . The two will entitle main divisions of the present work are into Contracts tain an action . and Torts . In the ...
... person's the nature of a person's rights which will entitle him right which to maintain an action for their infringement . The two will entitle main divisions of the present work are into Contracts tain an action . and Torts . In the ...
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... person has suf- fered what in the eyes of the law is looked upon as a legal injury , he must have a corresponding right of action , even though he has suffered no harm . This is illustrated by the well - known case of Ashby v . White ...
... person has suf- fered what in the eyes of the law is looked upon as a legal injury , he must have a corresponding right of action , even though he has suffered no harm . This is illustrated by the well - known case of Ashby v . White ...
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... person shall not be of any force unless there is present some attorney of one of the superior courts on behalf of such person expressly named by him , and attending at his request , to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant ...
... person shall not be of any force unless there is present some attorney of one of the superior courts on behalf of such person expressly named by him , and attending at his request , to inform him of the nature and effect of such warrant ...
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... person after the passing of this Act , to answer for the debt , default , or miscarriage of another person , being in writing , and signed by the person to be charged therewith , or some other person thereunto lawfully authorized ...
... person after the passing of this Act , to answer for the debt , default , or miscarriage of another person , being in writing , and signed by the person to be charged therewith , or some other person thereunto lawfully authorized ...
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... person was no considera- tion . The doing by a person of an act which he was already under a legal obligation to do , cannot form a bound to do is consideration ; thus a promise by a master of a ship to pay his seamen a sum in addition ...
... person was no considera- tion . The doing by a person of an act which he was already under a legal obligation to do , cannot form a bound to do is consideration ; thus a promise by a master of a ship to pay his seamen a sum in addition ...
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Page 139 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 82 - By the seventeenth section, it is enacted that " no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of £,10 sterling, or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 40 - 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 408 - upon all debts or sums certain payable at a 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 271 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
Page 379 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has the charge or control of any signal, points, locomotive engine, or train upon a railway...
Page 197 - 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...
Page 33 - REPORTS OF THE DECISIONS OF THE JUDGES FOR THE TRIAL OF ELECTION PETITIONS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. PURSUANT TO THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. ACT, 1868. BY EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY AND HENRY HARDCASTLE.
Page 197 - All contracts, whether by specialty or by simple contract, henceforth entered into by infants for the repayment of money lent or to be lent, or for goods supplied or to be supplied (other than contracts for necessaries ) , and all accounts stated with infants, shall be absolutely void...
Page 41 - The fourth section enacts that after the date there mentioned "no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate...