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, ...E. B. Ince, 1873 |
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... taken under the 97th section of the Bankruptcy Act , 1869 ( 32 & 33 Vict . c . 71 ) , was admitted in evi- dence against him . The summons to bring up the trader for examination was issued before the certificate of the appointment of ...
... taken under the 97th section of the Bankruptcy Act , 1869 ( 32 & 33 Vict . c . 71 ) , was admitted in evi- dence against him . The summons to bring up the trader for examination was issued before the certificate of the appointment of ...
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... taken down in writing and read over to him , and I see that he signed his name twelve times to it , it is contended that it is not to be evidence and it was taken on two different days . Yet against him . put forward is that he was ...
... taken down in writing and read over to him , and I see that he signed his name twelve times to it , it is contended that it is not to be evidence and it was taken on two different days . Yet against him . put forward is that he was ...
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... taken and the evidence admis- sible , and I further am of opinion , though other members of the Court may not be , that the proceedings were regular . was BRETT , J. — I am of the same opinion . It was argued that the Judge exercised ...
... taken and the evidence admis- sible , and I further am of opinion , though other members of the Court may not be , that the proceedings were regular . was BRETT , J. — I am of the same opinion . It was argued that the Judge exercised ...
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... taken under Act of Parliament - Liability to make good Deficiency in Rates . The defendants were authorised by their Special Act to take lands in several parishes , and to construct thereon seven railways , which , when completed , were ...
... taken under Act of Parliament - Liability to make good Deficiency in Rates . The defendants were authorised by their Special Act to take lands in several parishes , and to construct thereon seven railways , which , when completed , were ...
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... taken in that parish uncon- verted into a railway , nevertheless the liability would cease , provided the com- pleted part within the parish were earning money as a railway . Prentice was heard in reply . BRETT , J. - Upon the best ...
... taken in that parish uncon- verted into a railway , nevertheless the liability would cease , provided the com- pleted part within the parish were earning money as a railway . Prentice was heard in reply . BRETT , J. - Upon the best ...
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Page 147 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse or qualification, whether it does or does not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant but need not be specified or negatived...
Page 98 - ... where there is any defect, imperfection, or omission in any pleading, whether in substance or form, which would have been a fatal objection upon demurrer ; yet if the issue joined be such as necessarily required on the trial proof of the facts so defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give, or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or omission, is cured by the verdict...
Page 122 - ... in respect of the proceedings of which minutes have been so made shall be deemed to have been duly held and convened, and all resolutions passed thereat or proceedings had, to have been duly passed and had...
Page 25 - Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months...
Page 94 - MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned...
Page 16 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Page 13 - 'the proper meaning of a privileged communication is only this : that the occasion on which the communication was made rebuts the inference prima facie arising from a statement prejudicial to the character of the plaintiff, and puts it upon him to prove that there was malice in fact — that the defendant was actuated by motives of personal spite or ill-will, independent of the occasion on which the communication was made,' " and Lord Lindley in Stuart v.
Page 65 - Magistrates, shall upon Proof of the Identity of the Person of the Offender, be sufficient Evidence of the First Conviction, without Proof of the Signature or official Character of the Person appearing to have signed the same...
Page 86 - the wrongful or fraudulent taking and carrying away by any person of the mere personal goods of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his (the taker's) own use, and make them his own property, without the consent of the owner.
Page 15 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm...