Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 67T. & J.W. Johnson, 1871 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... count to be , whether the lord chief justice was right in leaving it to the jury to say whether the matter complained of was a fair account of what took place at the trial at Croydon , and in telling them , that , if they were of ...
... count to be , whether the lord chief justice was right in leaving it to the jury to say whether the matter complained of was a fair account of what took place at the trial at Croydon , and in telling them , that , if they were of ...
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... count alleging that the plaintiffs were entitled to a cer- tain ferry across the Thames , that the defendant conveyed passengers and goods across the river near to the plaintiffs ' ferry , and that , by reason thereof , the plaintiffs ...
... count alleging that the plaintiffs were entitled to a cer- tain ferry across the Thames , that the defendant conveyed passengers and goods across the river near to the plaintiffs ' ferry , and that , by reason thereof , the plaintiffs ...
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... count stated that the plaintiffs , as trustees as aforesaid , were entitled to the fee - simple and inheritance of ... count and for the plaintiffs on the second . Peacock , on behalf of the defendant , now moved to arrest the judg- ment ...
... count stated that the plaintiffs , as trustees as aforesaid , were entitled to the fee - simple and inheritance of ... count and for the plaintiffs on the second . Peacock , on behalf of the defendant , now moved to arrest the judg- ment ...
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... count charges a disturbance ; and the jury have found it . It is only in a tolerably clear case that the court will grant a rule to arrest the judgment . We think this is a case in which the defendant ought to be left to his writ of ...
... count charges a disturbance ; and the jury have found it . It is only in a tolerably clear case that the court will grant a rule to arrest the judgment . We think this is a case in which the defendant ought to be left to his writ of ...
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... count of the declaration stated that the defendant , on the 7th of May , 1847 , made his bill of exchange in writing , and directed the same to one Matthews , and thereby required the said Matthews to pay to his , the defendant's ...
... count of the declaration stated that the defendant , on the 7th of May , 1847 , made his bill of exchange in writing , and directed the same to one Matthews , and thereby required the said Matthews to pay to his , the defendant's ...
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Page 397 - Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 277 - Shipped in good order and well conditioned by in and upon the good ship called the whereof is master for this present voyage and now riding at anchor in the and bound for os being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 397 - Action the Jury may give such Damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such Death to the Parties respectively for whom and for whose Benefit such Action shall be brought...
Page 817 - Any Contract which if made between private Persons would be by Law required to be in Writing, and...
Page 801 - B. for life, remainder to his first and other sons successively in tail male, remainder to the future sons of C.
Page 395 - ... or why there should not be a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence ; or why the judgment should not be arrested.
Page 297 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, the one of which three bills being accomplished, the other two to stand void, and so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen.
Page 493 - The lord chief justice overruled the objection, reserving leave to the defendant to move to enter a verdict for him, or a nonsuit.
Page 731 - That, although afterwards, and before the commencement of this suit, to wit, on the 1st of...
Page 15 - But when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract," so that it is no excuse if that which happens might have been provided against by the contract.