The Journal of Jurisprudence, 4. köideT.T. Clark, 1860 |
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... English bar ) can afford to smile at this whimsical proposal , which ought certainly to find a place in any new edition of the play of " Used Up . " Charles Matthews , as " The Grocer of Tobermory , " would be sure to draw crowds at the ...
... English bar ) can afford to smile at this whimsical proposal , which ought certainly to find a place in any new edition of the play of " Used Up . " Charles Matthews , as " The Grocer of Tobermory , " would be sure to draw crowds at the ...
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... English and Scotch creditors are equally liable to be outwitted . Say that Thomas Smith , stockbroker in Glasgow , falls into difficulties ; if he can only succeed in escaping untraced to some remote locality , where bank- ruptcy ...
... English and Scotch creditors are equally liable to be outwitted . Say that Thomas Smith , stockbroker in Glasgow , falls into difficulties ; if he can only succeed in escaping untraced to some remote locality , where bank- ruptcy ...
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recent English case of Perrins v . the Marine and General Travellers ' Insurance Company ( 11 Nov. 1859 ) , where it was held , by a majority of the Court of Queen's Bench , that an ironmonger in Birmingham had not forfeited a policy by ...
recent English case of Perrins v . the Marine and General Travellers ' Insurance Company ( 11 Nov. 1859 ) , where it was held , by a majority of the Court of Queen's Bench , that an ironmonger in Birmingham had not forfeited a policy by ...
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... English Courts have not ventured to enforce its provisions in their literal sense . In particular , the admis- sion of unstamped bills in evidence has long been permitted in the Criminal Courts . For the subsequent legalisation of that ...
... English Courts have not ventured to enforce its provisions in their literal sense . In particular , the admis- sion of unstamped bills in evidence has long been permitted in the Criminal Courts . For the subsequent legalisation of that ...
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... English and Scottish lawyers should disuse as much as possible their peculiar phraseology , and call things by the names by which they are known in the common language spoken and written in the United Kingdom . If the one would ...
... English and Scottish lawyers should disuse as much as possible their peculiar phraseology , and call things by the names by which they are known in the common language spoken and written in the United Kingdom . If the one would ...
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Page 131 - And be it enacted, that in this Act the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something...
Page 1 - WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned ; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted...
Page 331 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Page 206 - And it is further agreed that if the ship hereby insured shall come into collision with any other ship or vessel and the assured shall in consequence thereof become liable to pay and shall pay by way of damages to any other person or persons any sum or sums in respect of such collision, the underwriters will pay the assured such proportion of three-fourths of such sum or sums so paid as their respective subscriptions hereto bear to the value of the ship hereby insured...
Page 122 - POLICY of ASSURANCE or Insurance, or other Instrument, by whatever Name the same shall be called, whereby any Insurance shall be made upon any Life or Lives...
Page 35 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 130 - Service, shall continue and be actually employed by such Attorney or Solicitor, or Six Clerk, or his or their Agent or Agents, in the proper Business, Practice or Employment of an Attorney or Solicitor...
Page 372 - ... with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation, hereby...
Page 78 - Party shall not appear accordingly, then (upon Proof of the due Service of the Summons by delivering a Copy thereof to the Party, or by delivering such Copy at the Party's usual Place of Abode to some Inmate thereat, and explaining the Purport thereof to such Inmate...
Page 50 - Act, shall be stamped with duty according to the value of the property contained therein at the time they shall be respectively sworn to, including the proceeds accrued thereon down to that time...