Cases on Commercial Law: General Survey, Contracts, Agency, Bailments, Sales, Negotiable Paper, Partnerships, Corporations, BankruptcyAlfred William Bays |
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... plaintiff and a defense by the de- fendant before the case is at issue and ready for trial . 2. The trial . If the case is at issue under the pleadings it proceeds to trial . The parties are entitled to a trial by jury in the common law ...
... plaintiff and a defense by the de- fendant before the case is at issue and ready for trial . 2. The trial . If the case is at issue under the pleadings it proceeds to trial . The parties are entitled to a trial by jury in the common law ...
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... plaintiff's leaving deducted from the wages he would otherwise be entitled to recover . The minor appeals . Point Involved : Whether a minor's contract to per- form personal services is voidable by him . Whether upon abandoning such ...
... plaintiff's leaving deducted from the wages he would otherwise be entitled to recover . The minor appeals . Point Involved : Whether a minor's contract to per- form personal services is voidable by him . Whether upon abandoning such ...
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... plaintiff's claim , contending that plaintiff makes out no case unless he further alleges that he knew of the offer of the reward when he made the capture . The court sustains this contention and gives plaintiff leave to amend , but ...
... plaintiff's claim , contending that plaintiff makes out no case unless he further alleges that he knew of the offer of the reward when he made the capture . The court sustains this contention and gives plaintiff leave to amend , but ...
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... plaintiff , in making the offer by tele- graph , to sell an article which fluctuates so much in price , must have been upon the understanding that the accept- ance , if at all , should be immediate , and as soon after the receipt of the ...
... plaintiff , in making the offer by tele- graph , to sell an article which fluctuates so much in price , must have been upon the understanding that the accept- ance , if at all , should be immediate , and as soon after the receipt of the ...
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... Plaintiff sued for breach of contract . Point Involved : If acceptance to an offer is requested within a certain ... ( plaintiff's ) postal card on the 25th of March . It is clear here that the nature of the business demanded a prompt ...
... Plaintiff sued for breach of contract . Point Involved : If acceptance to an offer is requested within a certain ... ( plaintiff's ) postal card on the 25th of March . It is clear here that the nature of the business demanded a prompt ...
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Common terms and phrases
99 Question acceptance accord and satisfaction action agent agreed agreement alleged amount appellant appellee assignment authority Biewer binding bound breach charge circumstances claim Clandeboye common carrier common law consideration constitute contract court of equity covenant creditor damages debt debtor decision deed defendant defendant's disaffirm discharge doctrine duress duty enforceable executed fact fendant held illegal implied infant instrument intention interest judgment jury JUSTICE land lease letter liable liquidated damages Lomm ment merely minor necessary negotiable Note obligation offeree offeror option oral paid paper parol evidence parol evidence rule party payment performance person plaintiff in error Plankington Point Involved principle promise promisor purchase purpose ratification reason received recover rule seal seller signed sold statement statute of frauds sued sufficient suit thereof tion tort tract transaction unless usury valid void voidable writing
Popular passages
Page 678 - Action for damages for non-acceptance of the goods. —(1) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods, the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. (2) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting, in the ordinary course of events, from the buyer's breach of contract.
Page 983 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 720 - Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any statute in that behalf, there is no implied warranty or condition as to the quality or fitness for any particular purpose of goods supplied under a contract of sale...
Page 580 - Any affirmation of fact or any promise by the seller relating to the goods is an express warranty if the natural tendency of such affirmation or promise is to induce the buyer to purchase the goods, and if the buyer purchases the goods relying thereon. No affirmation of the value of the goods, nor any statement purporting to be a statement of the seller's opinion only shall be construed as a warranty.
Page 988 - A promissory note is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another, signed by the maker, engaging to pay, on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money, to, or to the order of, a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 678 - Where there is an available market for the goods in question, the measure of damages is, in the absence of special circumstances, showing proximate damage of a greater amount, the difference between the contract price and the market or current price at the time or times when the goods ought to have been accepted. or, if no time was fixed for acceptance, then at the time of the refusal to accept.
Page 976 - And, in addition, he engages that on due presentment, it shall be accepted or paid, or both, as the case may be, according to its tenor, and that if it be dishonored, and the necessary proceedings on dishonor be duly taken, he will pay the amount thereof to the holder, or to any subsequent indorser who may be compelled to pay it.
Page 851 - That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Page 757 - An instrument to be negotiable must conform to the following requirements : — 1. It must be in writing and signed by the maker or drawer ; 2. Must contain an unconditional promise or order to pay a sum certain in money ; 3. Must be payable on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time; 4. Must be payable to order or to bearer ; and, 5. Where the instrument is addressed to a drawee, he must be named or otherwise indicated therein with reasonable certainty.
Page 848 - To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith.