 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 942 pages
...immaterial ( Wright v. Snowe, 2 DeG. g Sm. S2T); for the affirmation of what oue does not know or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable...affirmation of what is known to be positively false. Anslie v. Medlycott, 9 Ves. 21 ; Taylor v. Ashton, 11 M. g W. 401 ; Doggelt v. Emmerson, 3 Story C.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe to be true, is equally in morals and law as unjustifiable...affirmation of what is known to be positively false. 5 And even if the party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive; for it... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1178 pages
...knowledge on the subject is immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe, to be true, is equally in morals and law, as unjustifiable...affirmation of what is known to be positively false. So if a party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive ; for it operates... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847 - 556 pages
...were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable...false. And even if a party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive, for it operates as a surprise and imposition upon the other... | |
 | William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 732 pages
...were true or false, is wholly immaterial ; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe to be true, is equally in morals and law, as unjustifiable...what is known to be positively false. And even if the party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive ; for it operates as... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 912 pages
...were true or false, is wholly immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true, is equally in morals and law as unjustifiable...affirmation of what is known to be positively false," and he adds, "even if the party innocently misrepresents a material fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive,... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1847 - 438 pages
...false, is wholly immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true in equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable as the...what is known to be positively false; and even if the party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive, for it operates as... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1847 - 634 pages
...were true or false, is wholly immaterial ; for the affirmation of what one does not knnw, or believe to be true, is equally in morals and law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positive, ly false. And even if the party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 714 pages
...were true or false, is wholly immaterial. For the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable...affirmation of what is known to be positively false." Story's Com. on Eq. ยง193. This rule of manifest equity and sound morality, we have seen, was recognized... | |
 | Maryland. Courts: High Court of Chancery - Equity - 1851 - 616 pages
...deceived by it. For, as Mr. Justice Story says, "the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true, is equally in morals and law as unjustifiable, as the affirmation of what one knows to be positively false." 1 Story's Eq., sec., 193. Now, it may very well be, that the defendant,... | |
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Whether the party thus misrepresenting a fact knew it to be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and... 
