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 | Bengal (India). Sadr Dīwānī ʻAdālat - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 268 pages
...counsel for the appellant, " that when one by his \vords or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces...to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring as against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."... | |
 | Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1112 pages
...Sears (b), which perhaps only brought, for the first time, this fuller explanation of the doctrine that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes...to alter his own previous position; the former is concluded from averring as against the latter a different state of things existing at the same time.... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1862 - 586 pages
...with approbation, that ' where one by his own words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces...to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the time.' '... | |
 | Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1014 pages
...on the principle that, if one person by his words or conduct wilfully 1 causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief or to alter his previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - Evidence - 1862 - 776 pages
...every one in particular, who may have had occasion to act upon it ; and 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 on that belief, so as to alter... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 788 pages
...El. 469). The words used by Lord Denman on that occasion are, " But the rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe the ejdttt'nce of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his... | |
 | Law - 1864 - 572 pages
...question is, does Pickard v. Sears apply to a case like the present? The rule is there laid down, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes...to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring agaiust the latter, a different state of thiugs as existing at the same time.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 560 pages
...man, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes anrithtr to believe in the existence of a certain statu of things, and induces him to act on that belief,...to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time:... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 668 pages
...case of Pichard v. Sears (a) apply to a case like the present? The rule is thus laid down — 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 on that belief, or to alter his... | |
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