Principles of the Common Law: An Elementary Work Intended for the Use of Students and the ProfessionStevens and Haynes, 1876 - 454 pages |
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... PARTICULAR CONTRACTS , IRRESPECTIVE OF ANY DISABILITY OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES VII . OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS UNDER SOME DISABILITY 166 VIII . OF THE LIABILITY ON CONTRACTS , THEIR PERFORM- ance , and Excuses for their Non ...
... PARTICULAR CONTRACTS , IRRESPECTIVE OF ANY DISABILITY OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES VII . OF CONTRACTS WITH PERSONS UNDER SOME DISABILITY 166 VIII . OF THE LIABILITY ON CONTRACTS , THEIR PERFORM- ance , and Excuses for their Non ...
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... particular words , they will be con- strued as only ejusdem generis with the particular words . This rule also has to be taken subject to the Fals demon- maxim Falsa demonstratio non nocet , the meaning of which maxim has been well ...
... particular words , they will be con- strued as only ejusdem generis with the particular words . This rule also has to be taken subject to the Fals demon- maxim Falsa demonstratio non nocet , the meaning of which maxim has been well ...
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... particular society of which he formed a member , and in which he passed his life " ( k ) . When a contract has once been reduced into writing , Goss v . Lord evidence cannot be given to show that the parties Nugent . at the time agreed ...
... particular society of which he formed a member , and in which he passed his life " ( k ) . When a contract has once been reduced into writing , Goss v . Lord evidence cannot be given to show that the parties Nugent . at the time agreed ...
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... particular prospectus , that would have been sufficient ; if the title to the book had been the same as the prospectus , it might perhaps have done ; but as the signature now stands , without refer- ence of any sort to the prospectus ...
... particular prospectus , that would have been sufficient ; if the title to the book had been the same as the prospectus , it might perhaps have done ; but as the signature now stands , without refer- ence of any sort to the prospectus ...
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... particular time , there is a presumption that the intention to contract continues until that time arrives , unless the offer is before then . rescinded ; so that where in one case an offer was made by the defendant to sell at a certain ...
... particular time , there is a presumption that the intention to contract continues until that time arrives , unless the offer is before then . rescinded ; so that where in one case an offer was made by the defendant to sell at a certain ...
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Page 37 - Act, 1925, provides as follows: "no Action shall be brought whereby to charge any Executor or Administrator upon any special Promise, to answer Damages out of his own Estate...
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Page 36 - Lord one thousand six hundred seventy and seven, all leases, estates, interests of freehold, or terms of years, or any uncertain interest of , in, to or out of any messuages, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, made or created by livery and seisin only, or by parol, and not put in writing, and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only...
Page 233 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
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Page 358 - That upon all debts or sums certain payable at a certain time, or otherwise, the jury, on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor, at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest from the time when such debts or sums certain were payable, if such debts or sums be payable by virtue of some written instrument, at a certain time...
Page 229 - Viet. c. 109, s. 18, it is enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 207 - A defendant in an action may set-off, or set up by way of counterclaim against the claims of the plaintiff, any right or claim, whether such set-off or counterclaim sound in damages . or not...