 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...maintaining this suit, on the well-known principle, for which Pickard v. Sears (1) is the leading authority, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes...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
...not only within the rule 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... | |
 | Graham Willmore, Frederick Luard Wollaston, Henry Davison - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 810 pages
...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 alter his own previous position, the former is conclndf. from averring against... | |
 | 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 another to believe the existence " of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief so " as to alter... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Edmund Saunders - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 968 pages
...estoppel derived from the rule laid down in Pickard v. Sears, 6 A. & E. 474. 4 Nev. & P. 488. SC viz. that " where one by his words or conduct " wilfully...to believe in " the existence of a certain state of without saying that it was by indenture. 1 Salk. 277. Kemp v. Goodal. SC 2 Ld. Raym. 1154. SP 3 Lev.... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1847 - 438 pages
...not be pleaded. See Pickard v. Sears, 6 Ad. $ Ell. 474., where the court laid down this rule : — " Where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court - Civil procedure - 1851 - 400 pages
...accordingly precluded from disputing his liability. A person who, by his words or conduct, leads others to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and to act on that belief, is estopped from subsequently averring that a different state of things existed... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 994 pages
...bills of lading operating as an estoppel, are founded on the well-known maxim of law, that, if a person wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of facts with a view to his acting upon them, and he in consequence does so act, the former is concluded... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1853 - 488 pages
...pleaded. See Pickard v. Sears, 6 Ad. & Ell. 474, 33 ECLR, where the Court laid down this rule : — " Where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter -his... | |
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Or, as it was said in another case, 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... 
