Irish Chancery Reports: Being a Series of Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery and the Rolls Court, in Ireland...1850[-1866]...Hodges, 1865 |
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Page 60
... prisoner was tried before us , on the 9th of December last , at the Commission for the county of Dublin , for having feloniously stolen eight boots , the property of William Hutchings . The first witness examined was Mr. W. Hutchings ...
... prisoner was tried before us , on the 9th of December last , at the Commission for the county of Dublin , for having feloniously stolen eight boots , the property of William Hutchings . The first witness examined was Mr. W. Hutchings ...
Page 61
... prisoner . This witness was cross - examined as to the fact of the boots brought to him by the policeman being his ; and also as to whether they might not have been sold in the shop by his niece , who some- times sold boots for him , or ...
... prisoner . This witness was cross - examined as to the fact of the boots brought to him by the policeman being his ; and also as to whether they might not have been sold in the shop by his niece , who some- times sold boots for him , or ...
Page 62
... prisoner's Coun- JOHNSTON . Sel ) : - " Prisoner said she had two pair of boots in the parcel ; and " I then , before I said anything else to her , took the parcel from " her ; and then I again asked her where she got them ...
... prisoner's Coun- JOHNSTON . Sel ) : - " Prisoner said she had two pair of boots in the parcel ; and " I then , before I said anything else to her , took the parcel from " her ; and then I again asked her where she got them ...
Page 63
... prisoner . The general rule of law on this point is to be found in Regina v . Baldry ( a ) . There , Lord Campbell , C. J. , says : " Prisoners are " not to be interrogated . By the law of Scotland they may be ; " but by the law of ...
... prisoner . The general rule of law on this point is to be found in Regina v . Baldry ( a ) . There , Lord Campbell , C. J. , says : " Prisoners are " not to be interrogated . By the law of Scotland they may be ; " but by the law of ...
Page 64
... prisoner , renders the evidence inadmissible . I admit the prisoner was in custody at the time the question was put , although she was not aware of that fact . A material fact in the case is , that there was no threat used by the ...
... prisoner , renders the evidence inadmissible . I admit the prisoner was in custody at the time the question was put , although she was not aware of that fact . A material fact in the case is , that there was no threat used by the ...
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Page 210 - Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading, and every endorsee of a bill of lading, to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned shall pass upon or by reason of such consignment or endorsement...
Page 469 - An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Page 199 - The second section enacts, that, after the day therein mentioned, "no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action, to recover any land or rent...
Page 227 - That, where the evidence Is equally consistent with either view,— with the existence or nonexistence of negligence, — it is not competent to the Judge to leave the matter to the Jury. The party who affirms negligence has altogether failed to establish It. This is a rule which ought never to be lost sight of.
Page 201 - ... or of such rent, for his or their own benefit, or for the benefit of any person or persons other than the person or persons entitled to the other...
Page 214 - ... shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.
Page 463 - P. 249] , and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation, on which it is founded, never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Page 165 - ... to begin and be made on such of the said days, as shall first happen after the decease of the said Adam, Ash, Provided always, and it is hereby agreed and citwe of $urdeclared .between and by the said parties here- VIV°'4 lp...
Page xiv - Borough during that Year and the whole of each of the Two preceding Years, and also during the Time of such Occupation shall have been an Inhabitant Householder within the said Borough, or within Seven Miles of the said Borough, shall, if duly enrolled in that Year...
Page 200 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims; or if such right shall not have accrued to any person through whom he claims, then within...