A Digest of the Reported Decisions of the Courts of Common Law, Bankruptcy, Probate, Admiralty, and Divorce: Together with a Selection from Those of the Court of Chancery and Irish Courts, from 1756 to 1883 Inclusive, Volume 6H. Sweet, 1884 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 281 - this, that my view of the power of prohibition at the present day " is that the Court should not be chary of exercising it, and that " wherever the Legislature entrusts to any body of persons other than " to the superior Courts the power of imposing an obligation upon " individuals, the Courts ought to exercise as widely as they can the " power of controlling those bodies of persons if those persons " admittedly attempt to exercise powers beyond the powers given to
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Page 67 - The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master be proved.
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Page 683 - England against the executors, to determine the claims under the will ; whereupon the stock was transferred into the name of the AccountantGeneral of the Court of Chancery...
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