The Law Journal Reports, 61. köide

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E.B. Ince, 1892
 

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Page 470 - ... unless the agreement, upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 447 - Act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determinable future time, a sum certain in money to order or to bearer.
Page 290 - Charity' in its legal sense comprises four principal divisions: trusts for the relief of poverty; trusts for the advancement of education; trusts for the advancement of religion ; and trusts for other purposes beneficial to the community, not falling under any of the preceding heads.
Page 380 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 23 - Court or Judge may, if satisfied that the party so applying is entitled to issue execution, make an order to that effect, or may order that any issue or question necessary to determine the rights of the parties shall be tried in any of the ways in which any question in an action may be tried. And in either case such Court or Judge may impose such terms as to costs or otherwise as shall be just.
Page 269 - a key to open the minds of the makers of the act, and the mischiefs which they intended to redress.
Page 98 - If the debtor gives notice to any of his creditors that he has suspended, or that he is about to suspend, payment of his debts.
Page 35 - As to costs to be paid or borne by another party, no costs are to be allowed which do not appear to the taxing officer to have been necessary or proper for the attainment of justice or defending the rights of the party, or which appear to the taxing officer to have been incurred through overcaution, negligence, or mistake, or merely at the desire of the party.
Page 536 - That an action will lie for written or oral falsehoods, not actionable per se nor even defamatory, where they are maliciously published, where they are Calculated in the ordinary course of things to produce, and where they do produce, actual damage, is established law.
Page 335 - June no contract for the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...

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