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]... |
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41 , under which a Company could be bound by a contract in writing made by any person acting " under the express or implied authority of the Com- pany , " led to its repeal in the third schedule to the Companies Act 1862 ( 25 & 26 Vic .
41 , under which a Company could be bound by a contract in writing made by any person acting " under the express or implied authority of the Com- pany , " led to its repeal in the third schedule to the Companies Act 1862 ( 25 & 26 Vic .
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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...