Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And the Court of Exchequer Chamber on Appeal from the Court of Queen's Bench [1861-1869] ...

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Page 747 - such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action/' for he had already received accord and satisfaction in respect of it Sect. 2 regulates the action when it is maintainable, and directs the mode
Page 63 - the same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first day, and inclusively of the last day, unless the last day shall happen to fall on a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or a day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving, in which case the time shall be reckoned exclusively of that day also.
Page 762 - The Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, 15 & 16 Viet. c. 76. s. 37., which allows the misjoinder of defendants to be amended, applies only where a party has been made defendant by inadvertence: here the document has been declared upon as a joint contract. Macnamara was not called upon to reply.
Page 352 - No colonial law shall be or be deemed to have been void or inoperative on the ground of repugnancy to the law of England, unless the same shall be repugnant to the provisions of some such Act of Parliament, order, or regulation as aforesaid." A colonial Legislature can render valid marriages
Page 300 - KETTLEWELL against DYSON. 1. In ejectment on the title, the Court will allow the defendant to exhibit interrogatories to the plaintiff as to the links through which he claims to be heir; and this both at common law and under The Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, 17 & 18 Viet. c. 125. s. 51. 2.
Page 743 - An Act for compensating the families of persons killed by accidents," sect. 1, after reciting that "no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his wrongful act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes
Page 694 - An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to persons charged with indictable offences.
Page 300 - the defendant through TF, the paternal ancestor. Application was made at Chambers by the defendant, for an order under The Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, 17 & 18 Viet. c. 125. s. 51., calling on the plaintiff to answer the following interrogatory:—" If you claim that you are heir at law of
Page 801 - it under the protection of the law independently and freely, without favour and without fear. This provision of the law is not for the protection or benefit of a malicious or corrupt Judge, but for the benefit of the public, whose interest it is that the Judges should be at liberty to exercise their
Page 890 - 153. enacts that where a Company is being wound up by the Court or subject to the supervision of the Court every transfer of shares made between the commencement of the winding up and the order for winding up shall, unless the Court otherwise orders, be void. Held,