New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (partly Founded on Blackstone)

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Butterworths, 1863
 

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Page 484 - such wrongful act, neglect or default, as would, (if death had not ensued,) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action for damages, the person who would have been liable to such action may be sued by the executor or administrator, for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent
Page 147 - to make calls on all or any of the contributories (to the extent of their liability) for payment of the sums necessary to satisfy the debts and liabilities of the company, and the costs, charges and expenses of winding it up, and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories amongst themselves
Page 570 - be deemed to have first accrued at and not before the time at which such land or rent shall have been conveyed to a purchaser for a valuable consideration; and shall then be deemed to have accrued only as against such purchaser, and any person claiming through him
Page 639 - A party producing a witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character; but he may, in case the witness, in the opinion of the judge, prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence; or, by leave of the judge, prove that he has made, at
Page 570 - That when a mortgagee shall have obtained the possession or receipt of the profits of any land, or the receipt of any rent comprised in his mortgage, the mortgagor, or any person claiming through him, shall not bring a suit to redeem the mortgage, but within twenty years next after the time at which
Page 270 - that no owner or master of any ship shall be answerable to any person whatever for any loss or damage occasioned by the fault or incapacity of any qualified pilot acting in charge of such ship, within any district where the employment of such pilot is compulsory by law (z),
Page 144 - no company or association, consisting of more than twenty persons, shall be formed for the purpose of carrying on any business that has for its object the acquisition of gain to the association, or the individual members thereof, unless it is registered under that Act, or is formed in pursuance of some other Act, or of
Page 603 - court of law, so as to do justice " between the parties, it shall be " lawful for such court or judge, to " order the same to be struck out, " on such terms as to costs and " otherwise, as to such court or '* judge may seem reasonable.
Page 320 - nor to recover any charge in any court of Law for any medical or surgical advice or attendance, or for the performance of any operation, or for any medicine which they have both prescribed and supplied (g); nor to hold any of the government or other medical appointments specified in the Act
Page 484 - and this, although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony; and the jury may give damages proportionable to the injury resulting from such death, to be divided among the parties

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