| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 784 pages
...right and justice, than that if a man, by his words or acts, intentionally causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces...belief, so as to alter his own previous position, he is concluded from averring to the con* trary, if injury must result to him whom he has misled. The... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...the leading authority, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on the belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 932 pages
...established in Pirkftrd v. Sears (8), that if a man, by his words or acts, causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act in that belief, so as to alter his own previous condition, the former is estopped from denying the... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 728 pages
...property could only be divested by gift or sale, of which no specific act was even surmised. But the rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct,...belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the... | |
| Ireland. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 646 pages
...(h) ; Cruchley v. Clarence (f) ; Stone v. Marsh (k). In Pichard v. Sears (/) Lord Denman says : — " "Where one by his " words or conduct wilfully causes...him to act on that belief so " as to alter his own position, the former is concluded from averring " against the latter a different state of things as... | |
| Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...the property. On this occasion Lord Dcuman, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said ; " The rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief •o as to alter... | |
| Graham Willmore, Frederick Luard Wollaston, Henry Davison - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 810 pages
...property could only be divested" gift or sale, of which no specific act was even surmised. But the rule oi is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another : believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to ar: that belief, so as to... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 796 pages
...the jury was in substance quite in accordance with the principle laid down in Pickard v. Sears (c), that, " where one by his words or conduct wilfully...belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the... | |
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