The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence, 22. köide

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O. Richards, 1855

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Page 179 - or upwards shall 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 payment; or that some note or memorandum in writing of the said bargain be made and signed by the parties to be charged by such contracts, or their
Page 179 - the goods maybe intended to be delivered at some future time, or may not, at the time of such contract, be actually made, procured, or provided, or fit or ready for delivery, .or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery;
Page 309 - Acts of Parliament which have from time to time been made to enforce this universal law, or to facilitate the execution of its decisions, are not to be considered as introductory of any new rule, but merely as declaratory of the old fundamental constitutions of the Kingdom, without which it must cease to be part of the civilised world.
Page 369 - upon motion in open Court, after sufficient notice in writing to the persons sought to be charged; and for the purpose of ascertaining the names of the shareholders, and the amount of capital remaining to be paid upon their respective shares,
Page 436 - he would have acquired it, but for his gross negligence in the conduct of the business in question. " The question, when it is sought to affect a purchaser with constructive notice, is not whether he had the means of obtaining, and might by prudent caution have obtained,
Page 265 - If Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies; let them implead one another.
Page 449 - The declaration charged that the defendant, falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonable or probable cause, filed a petition for adjudication of bankruptcy against plaintiff, and falsely and maliciously, and without reasonable or probable cause, caused and procured
Page 191 - the distemper amongst the horned cattle ; and for the more frequent return of writs in the counties palatine of Chester and Lancaster; and for ascertaining the method of levying writs of execution against the inhabitants of hundreds ; and for allowing Quakers to make affirmation in cases where an oath is or shall be required.
Page 368 - mentioned in legible characters in all notices, advertisements, and other official publications of such company, and in all bills of parcels, invoices, receipts, and
Page 241 - Time is the great destroyer of evidence, but he is also the great protector of titles. If he comes with a scythe in one hand to mow down the muniments of our possessions, he holds an hourglass in the other, from which he incessantly metes out the portions of duration that are to render those muniments no longer necessary.

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