The Digest of English Case Law Containing the Reported Decisions of the Superior Courts: And a Selection from Those of the Irish Courts [from 1557] to the End of 1897, 4. köideSweet and Maxwell, 1898 |
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... applied for shares in the plaintiff com- pany . The company allotted the shares to the defendant , and duly addressed to him and posted a letter containing the notice of allotment , but the letter never was received by him : -Held , by ...
... applied for shares in the plaintiff com- pany . The company allotted the shares to the defendant , and duly addressed to him and posted a letter containing the notice of allotment , but the letter never was received by him : -Held , by ...
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... applied , by which all declarations of trusts of lands , tene- ments , & c . , must be proved by some writing . James v Smith , [ 1891 ] 1 Ch . 384 ; 63 L. T. 524 : 39 W. R. 396. Affirmed on other grounds , 65 L. T. 544 - C . A. Sale of ...
... applied , by which all declarations of trusts of lands , tene- ments , & c . , must be proved by some writing . James v Smith , [ 1891 ] 1 Ch . 384 ; 63 L. T. 524 : 39 W. R. 396. Affirmed on other grounds , 65 L. T. 544 - C . A. Sale of ...
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... applied , inasmuch as this would charge him with a trust beyond what the nature of the thing put it in his power to perform , and although it was reasonable to require him to use due care to ascertain whether the building was secure ...
... applied , inasmuch as this would charge him with a trust beyond what the nature of the thing put it in his power to perform , and although it was reasonable to require him to use due care to ascertain whether the building was secure ...
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... applied to an illegal purpose , is not money paid upon an illegal consideration . Bagot v . Arnott , Ir . R. 2 C. L. 1 ; 15 W. R. 812 . Ib . Where a contract to sell , which is tainted with illegality , is followed by a delivery of the ...
... applied to an illegal purpose , is not money paid upon an illegal consideration . Bagot v . Arnott , Ir . R. 2 C. L. 1 ; 15 W. R. 812 . Ib . Where a contract to sell , which is tainted with illegality , is followed by a delivery of the ...
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... applied to such purpose . Bone v . Ehless , 5 H. & N. 925 ; 29 L. J. , Ex . 438 . The defendant employed the plaintiff to sell a ship to a foreign government , authorising him to employ a part of the proceeds in bribing its officials ...
... applied to such purpose . Bone v . Ehless , 5 H. & N. 925 ; 29 L. J. , Ex . 438 . The defendant employed the plaintiff to sell a ship to a foreign government , authorising him to employ a part of the proceeds in bribing its officials ...
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Page 69 - P. 249), and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give no original right of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Page 73 - An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Page 123 - The test," says Judge Duncan in Swan v. Scott, 11 Serg. & R. 164, "whether a demand connected with an illegal transaction is capable of being enforced at law, is whether the plaintiff requires the aid of the illegal transaction to establish his case.
Page 83 - Now, an implied warranty, or, as it is called, a covenant in law, as distinguished from an express contract or express warranty, really is in all cases founded on the presumed intention of the parties, and upon reason. The implication which the law draws from what must obviously have been the intention of the parties, the law draws with the object of giving efficacy to the transaction and preventing such a failure of consideration as cannot have been within the contemplation of either side...
Page 123 - The general rule is that where you cannot sever the illegal from the legal part of a covenant, the contract is altogether void; but, where you can sever them, whether the illegality be created by statute or by the common law, you may reject the bad part and retain the good.
Page 113 - There seems no doubt that where there is a positive contract to do a thing, not in itself unlawful, the contractor must perform it or pay damages for not doing it, although in consequence of unforeseen accidents, the performance of his contract has become unexpectedly burdensome or even impossible.
Page 59 - B. and the survivor of them, and the executors or administrators of such survivor...
Page 117 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 681 - Master shall direct ; and any of the Parties are to be at liberty to apply to the Court as there shall be Occasion.