The State Reports, New South Wales, 4. köideLaw Book Company of Australasia, 1904 |
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Page 260 - ... and if the company be willing to make compensation for such mines or any part thereof to such owner, lessee, or occupier thereof, then he shall not work or get the same ; and if the company, and such owner, lessee, or occupier, do not agree as to the amount of such compensation, the same shall be settled as in other cases of disputed compensation.
Page 292 - On the imposition of uniform duties of customs the power of the Parliament to impose duties of customs and of excise, and to grant bounties on the production or export of goods, shall become exclusive.
Page 196 - Morgan, assignee as aforesaid, as well in his own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same did, might, or should appertain, in part or in all...
Page 35 - That all laws and statutes in force within the realm of England at the time of the passing of this Act...
Page 339 - ... all the creditors of such person, as well specialty as simple contract, shall be treated as standing in equal degree, and be paid accordingly out of the assets' of such deceased person, whether such assets are legal or equitable, any statute or law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 416 - III. Another capacity, in which the king is considered in domestic affairs, is as the fountain of justice and general conservator of the peace of the kingdom. By the fountain of justice, the law does not mean the author or original, but only the distributor. Justice is not derived from the king, as from his free gift; but he is the steward of the public, to dispense it to whom it is due.
Page 91 - When a person enters into a contract, and afterwards alleges that he was so insane at the time that he did not know what he was doing...
Page 109 - any benefit, or even any legal possibility of benefit," in Mr. Smith's notes to Cumber v. Wane, is not (as I conceive) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm's lengt'h, or possibly become insolvent, but is some independent benefit, actual or contingent, of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal.