A Treatise on the Law of Contracts and Rights and Liabilities Ex ContractuLea and Blanchard, 1847 - 910 pages |
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... consequently as various as the wills and fancies of those who enact them . " * In the worst period of Roman history , and under the most corrupt and vicious of the emperors , the seats of justice were filled by jurists of integrity and ...
... consequently as various as the wills and fancies of those who enact them . " * In the worst period of Roman history , and under the most corrupt and vicious of the emperors , the seats of justice were filled by jurists of integrity and ...
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... consequently exist in the rules and principles of law regulating the right of action upon the one class of contracts and the other . Simple contracts are , as before mentioned , promises or agreements made either by word of mouth or put ...
... consequently exist in the rules and principles of law regulating the right of action upon the one class of contracts and the other . Simple contracts are , as before mentioned , promises or agreements made either by word of mouth or put ...
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... consequently , was entitled to maintain an action for a breach thereof . ( i ) So where the defendant promised the plaintiff to pay him 1007. if the plaintiff would bail the defendant's servant , who had been cast into prison , it was ...
... consequently , was entitled to maintain an action for a breach thereof . ( i ) So where the defendant promised the plaintiff to pay him 1007. if the plaintiff would bail the defendant's servant , who had been cast into prison , it was ...
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... consequently nudum pactum . A written agreement , consequently , to submit disputes and differences to arbitration , must be signed by all parties before any one can be made liable upon it , as the obligation by all to obey the award of ...
... consequently nudum pactum . A written agreement , consequently , to submit disputes and differences to arbitration , must be signed by all parties before any one can be made liable upon it , as the obligation by all to obey the award of ...
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... consequently no mutuality of obligation . ( s ) There is a large class of contracts in which there is no mutuality of engagement or liability . In the preceding cases , for example , where the consideration for the promise made by the ...
... consequently no mutuality of obligation . ( s ) There is a large class of contracts in which there is no mutuality of engagement or liability . In the preceding cases , for example , where the consideration for the promise made by the ...
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Page 418 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 700 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 60 - ... no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to 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...
Page 809 - ... silks in a manufactured or. unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials...
Page 344 - ... in case there shall be no special occupant of any estate pur autre vie, whether freehold or customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, it shall go to the executor or administrator of the party that had the estate thereof by virtue of the grant...
Page 60 - ... 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 85 - ... upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Page 81 - ... shall at any time after the said four and twentieth day of June be assigned, granted or surrendered, unless it be by deed or note in writing, signed by the party so assigning, granting or surrendering the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, or by act and operation of law.
Page 147 - But a license to hunt in a man's park, and carry away the deer killed to his own use ; to cut down a tree in a man's ground, and to carry it away the next day after to his own use, are licenses as to the acts of hunting and cutting down the tree, but as to the carrying away of the deer killed and tree cut down, they are grants.
Page 110 - ... for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available...