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... reason of similarity is no ground of relief . DEEDS EXECUTED BY INSOLVENT DEBTORS . OUR attention has been directed to a passage in an article which we published last week , en- titled " Landlords and Bankrupt Tenants , " in which it ...
... reason of similarity is no ground of relief . DEEDS EXECUTED BY INSOLVENT DEBTORS . OUR attention has been directed to a passage in an article which we published last week , en- titled " Landlords and Bankrupt Tenants , " in which it ...
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... reason for bringing such action in such Superior Court , " otherwise there would in such a case be a denial of justice . The court granted a rule to show cause . 66 In the case of Re Hodgson , an important question of practice has ...
... reason for bringing such action in such Superior Court , " otherwise there would in such a case be a denial of justice . The court granted a rule to show cause . 66 In the case of Re Hodgson , an important question of practice has ...
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... reason of being unable to ascertain his liabilities in respect of bills of exchange and other negotiable securities to which his firm had sub- scribed their names , and contended that as it was an assignment for the equal benefit of all ...
... reason of being unable to ascertain his liabilities in respect of bills of exchange and other negotiable securities to which his firm had sub- scribed their names , and contended that as it was an assignment for the equal benefit of all ...
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... reason it was erroneous . ” Breese , J. went further . He said that in addition to using all the most approved mechani- cal appliances for preventing the escape of fire from the locomotives , a railway company “ should be required to ...
... reason it was erroneous . ” Breese , J. went further . He said that in addition to using all the most approved mechani- cal appliances for preventing the escape of fire from the locomotives , a railway company “ should be required to ...
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... reason of his tenants having acquired a right to vote for the borough under that Act . It was ad- mitted that a person who had newly acquired such property would be so disentitled , but contended that the rights of persons who had voted ...
... reason of his tenants having acquired a right to vote for the borough under that Act . It was ad- mitted that a person who had newly acquired such property would be so disentitled , but contended that the rights of persons who had voted ...
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Page 43 - 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 44 - ... in the absence of any express or implied warranty that the thing shall exist, the contract is not to be construed as a positive contract, but as subject to an implied condition that the parties shall be excused in case, before breach, performance becomes impossible from the perishing of the thing without the default of the contractor.
Page 31 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 68 - ... and within the prescribed time after the notice is given any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the election to which the petition relates, may apply to the Court or Judge in, and at the prescribed manner, time, and place, to be substituted as a petitioner.
Page 31 - ... underground, and if, by the operation of the laws of nature, that accumulation of water had passed off into the close occupied by the Plaintiff, the Plaintiff could not have complained that that result had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so, by leaving, or by interposing, some barrier between his close and the close of the Defendants in order to have prevented that operation of the laws of nature.
Page 31 - I may term a non-natural use, for the purpose of introducing into the close that which in its natural condition was not in or upon it, for the purpose of introducing water either above or below ground in quantities and in a manner not the result of any work or operation on or under the land; and if in consequence of their doing so, or in consequence of any imperfection in the mode of their doing so, the water came to escape and to pass off into the close of the plaintiff, then it appears to me that...
Page 31 - ... which was not naturally there, harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property...
Page 20 - Fourth (chapter seventyfour), "for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and " for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance...
Page 31 - ... which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour's, should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property. But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued, and it seems but just that he should at his peril keep it there so that no mischief may accrue, or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences. And upon authority, this we think is established to be the law whether the things so brought be beasts,...
Page 95 - Any company limited by shares may so far modify the conditions contained...