 I have very often said before, that every judgment must be read as applicable to the particular facts proved, or assumed to be proved, since the generality of the expressions which may be found there are not intended to be expositions of the whole law,...  Law Notes - Page 401914Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1228 pages
...language of Lord Halsbury, in Quinn v. Leathern (1 Br. Rui. Cas. 209), is most appropriate. He says: "Every judgment must be read as applicable to the...the case in which such expressions are to be found. A case is only an authority of what it actually decides. I entirely deny that it can be quoted for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1070 pages
...stated the facts and has cited the cases. In Quinn v. Leathern, [1901] AC 506, the Lord Chancellor says: "Every judgment must be read as applicable to the...the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other Is that a case is only an authority for what it actually decides. I entirely deny that it... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1118 pages
...and has cited the cases. In Quinn v. Leathern (LR [1901] App. Gas. 506) the lord chancellor says: " Every judgment must be read as applicable to the particular...the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a case is only an authority for what it actually decides. I entirely deny that it... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 588 pages
...the device of a cat was per se publici juris. For as Lord Halsbury LC remarked in Quinn v. Leathetn* "every judgment must be read as applicable to the...since the generality of the expressions which may bs found there are not intended to be expositions of the whole law, but governed and qualified by the... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...PO1NTS. 1. Some general remarks by Halsbury, C., are thus reported. — Times newspaper, August 6, 1901: .'Every judgment must be read as applicable to the...not intended to be expositions of the whole law, but are governed and qualified by the particular facts of the case in which such ex-, pressions are to... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Constitutional history - 1902 - 560 pages
...what it actually decides" (Quinn v. Leathern [1901], AC 506, judgment of Halsbury, LC), and, secondly, "every judgment must be read as applicable to the...generality of the " expressions which may be found there arc not intended to be exposi" tions of the whole law, but governed and qualified by the particular... | |
 | James Roberts (Barrister-at-law) - Patent laws and legislation - 1903 - 780 pages
...general character which I wish to make, and one is to repeat what I have very often said before, that every judgment must be read as applicable to the particular...the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a case is only authority for what it actually decides. I entirely deny that it can... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1903 - 730 pages
...general character which I wish to make ; and one is to repeat what I have very often said before — that every judgment must be read as applicable to the particular...not intended to be expositions of the whole law, but are governed and qualified by the particular facts of the case in which such expressions are to be... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - Damages - 1904 - 1098 pages
...general character which I wish to make, and one is to repeat what I have very often said before, that every judgment must be read as applicable to the particular...the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a case is only an authority for what it actually decides. I entirely deny that it... | |
 | Canada - 1904 - 1150 pages
...to be laid aside in "the law's lumber-room.'1 This is made clear by Lord Salisbury's statement : " Every judgment must be read as applicable to the particular...particular facts of the case in which such expressions are found. A case is only an authority for what it actually decides. I entirely deny that it can be quoted... | |
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