The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, 123. köideFrederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1911 |
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Page 189
... directors ) purporting to limit the liability of shareholders to the amount of their shares . A misrepresentation by an officer of a registered Joint - stock Company as to the effect of the Company's deed of settlement , which it forms ...
... directors ) purporting to limit the liability of shareholders to the amount of their shares . A misrepresentation by an officer of a registered Joint - stock Company as to the effect of the Company's deed of settlement , which it forms ...
Page 190
... directors , and to all appearance formed an integral part of the instrument , purporting to limit the liability of shareholders to the amount of their shares . This skin formed no part of the original deed aз registered in conformity ...
... directors , and to all appearance formed an integral part of the instrument , purporting to limit the liability of shareholders to the amount of their shares . This skin formed no part of the original deed aз registered in conformity ...
Page 191
... directors of the Athenæum Insurance Society - is , whether Mr. Sheffield is , under the circumstances , a contributory , he having signed the Company's deed at the time when it contained a clause which had been surreptitiously inserted ...
... directors of the Athenæum Insurance Society - is , whether Mr. Sheffield is , under the circumstances , a contributory , he having signed the Company's deed at the time when it contained a clause which had been surreptitiously inserted ...
Page 192
... directors , acting in the due execution of their powers ; but it has never yet been held , that an officer of a Company misrepresenting the effect of a deed , which it was no part of his duty to expound , could release the party signing ...
... directors , acting in the due execution of their powers ; but it has never yet been held , that an officer of a Company misrepresenting the effect of a deed , which it was no part of his duty to expound , could release the party signing ...
Page 193
... directors of a Com- pany whose deed is so registered , must be taken to know the powers of the directors ; and if their powers are reduced by the deed to a limited agency , and they exceed those powers , those who deal with them must ...
... directors of a Com- pany whose deed is so registered , must be taken to know the powers of the directors ; and if their powers are reduced by the deed to a limited agency , and they exceed those powers , those who deal with them must ...
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Page 741 - Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading, and every indorsee of a bill of lading to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned shall pass, upon or by reason of such consignment or indorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.
Page 502 - ... until she hath moored at anchor twenty-four hours in good safety; and upon the goods and merchandises, until the same be there discharged and safely landed. And it shall be lawful for the said ship, &c., in this voyage, to proceed and sail to and touch and stay at any ports or places whatsoever without prejudice to this insurance.
Page 225 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Page 126 - That it shall be lawful for every Person to devise, bequeath, or dispose of, by his Will executed in manner herein-after required, all Real Estate and all Personal Estate which he shall be entitled to, either at Law or in Equity, at the Time of his Death...
Page 468 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 906 - The doctrine will apply, which is to be found, I believe, In the laws of all civilized nations, that if a man either by words or by conduct, has intimated that he consents to an act which has been done, and that he will offer no opposition to it, although it could not have been lawfully done without his consent, and he thereby induces others to do that from which they otherwise might have abstained, he cannot question the legality of the act he had so sanctioned, to the prejudice of those who have...
Page 501 - ... beginning the adventure upon the said goods and merchandises from the loading thereof aboard the said ship, upon the said ship, &c.
Page 98 - ... marriage who being a son should attain the age of twenty-one years, or being a daughter should attain that age or marry, then...
Page 502 - And in case of any loss or misfortune, it shall be lawful to the assured, their factors, servants, and assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the defence, safeguard, and recovery of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, &c., or any part thereof, without prejudice to this insurance...
Page 827 - If the act is in itself immoral, or a violation of the general laws of public policy, there the party paying shall not have this action ; for where both parties are equally criminal against such general laws, the rule is, pot/or est c<mditio defendentis.