The Scottish Law Review and Reports of Cases in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland, 11. köideW. Hodge & Company, 1895 |
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Page 209 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Page 108 - ... not specifying the same shall be deemed fraudulent on the part of the promoters, directors, and officers of the company knowingly issuing the same, as regards any person taking shares in the company on the faith of such prospectus unless he shall have had notice of such contract.
Page 237 - And be it enacted, that in estimating the annual value of lands and heritages, the same shall be taken to be the rent at which one year with another such lands and heritages might in their actual state be reasonably expected to let from year to year...
Page 132 - Salk 160, for the product of or in substitute for the original thing still follows the nature of the thing itself, as long as it can be ascertained to be such, and the right only ceases when the means of ascertainment fail, which is the case when the subject is turned into money, and mixed and confounded in a general mass of the same description.
Page 131 - It makes no difference in reason or law into what other form, different from the original, the change may have been made, whether it be into that of promissory notes for the security of the money which was produced by the sale of the goods of the principal, as in Scott v. Surman, Willes, 400, or into other merchandize, as in Whitecomb v. Jacob, Salk. 160, for the product of or substitute for the original thing still follows the nature of the thing itself, as long as it can be ascertained to be such...
Page 108 - Every prospectus of a company, and every notice inviting persons to subscribe for shares in any joint stock company shall specify the dates and the names of the parties to any contract entered into by the company, or the promoters, directors or trustees thereof, before the issue of such prospectus...
Page 268 - I regard as unfavourable to reformation the status of a prisoner throughout his whole career : the crushing of self-respect, the starving of all moral instinct he may possess, the absence of all opportunity to do or receive a kindness, the continual association with none but criminals and that only as a separate item amongst other items also separate ; the forced labour, and the denial of all liberty.
Page 132 - In such a case, there is no room for any other appropriation than that which arises from the order in which the receipts and payments take place, and are carried into the account.
Page 269 - We think that the system should be made more elastic, more capable of being adopted to the special cases of individual prisoners; that prison discipline and treatment should be more effectually designed to maintain, stimulate or awaken the higher susceptibilities of prisoners, to develop their moral instincts, to train them in orderly and industrial habits, and, whenever possible to turn them out of prison better men and women, both physically and morally, than when they came in.
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