The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...

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E. B. Ince, 1845

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Page 135 - ... at all times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, whether per ton per mile or otherwise, in respect of all passengers, and of all goods or carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances...
Page 70 - I, AB, do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I will faithfully, impartially and honestly, according to the best of my skill and ability, execute the duty of making the valuation hereby referred to me.
Page 207 - ... so convicted to be detained and kept in safe custody until return can be conveniently made to such warrant of distress...
Page 69 - ... for the sum of money to be paid by way of compensation for the damage, if any, to be sustained by the owner of the lands by reason of the severing of the lands taken from the other lands of such owner, or otherwise injuriously affecting such lands by the exercise of the powers of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith.
Page 35 - All acts done by any meeting of the directors, or of a committee of directors, or by any person acting as a director, shall, notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such...
Page 68 - All the costs of any such arbitration and incident thereto, to be settled by the arbitrators, shall be borne by the promoters of the undertaking, unless the arbitrators shall award the same or a less sum than shall have been offered by the promoters of the undertaking, in which case each party shall bear his own costs incident to the arbitration, and the costs of the arbitrators shall be borne by the parties in equal proportions.
Page 172 - Arbitrator, and shall be deemed a Submission to Arbitration on the Part of the Party by whom the same shall be made ; and after any such Appointment shall have been made neither Party shall have Power to revoke the same without the Consent of the other, nor shall the Death of either Party operate as a Revocation ; and if for the Space of Fourteen Days after any such Dispute...
Page 81 - Trespasser, on account of any Defect or Want of Form in the Summons, Conviction, Warrant of Distress, or other Proceeding relating thereto, nor shall such Party be deemed a Trespasser ab initio...
Page 108 - They may erect and construct such houses, warehouses, offices, and other buildings, yards, stations, wharft, engine machinery, apparatus, and other works and conveniences as they think proper; They may from time to time alter, repair, or discontinue the before-mentioned works or any of them, and substitute others in their stead ; and They may do all other acts necessary for making, maintaining, altering, or repairing, and using the railway...
Page 246 - ... shall extend to a body politic, corporate or collegiate, as well as an individual; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as several persons or things; and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male...

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