The Law Reports: Court of Common Pleas, 7. köideIncorporated council of law reporting for England and Wales, 1872 |
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Page 590 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally — ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself — or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 202 - Estate of the clear Yearly Value of not less than Five Pounds over and above all Rents and Charges payable out of or in respect of the same...
Page 627 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter in which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged, if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminating matter which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Page 328 - The ruling was in form that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury; but...
Page 409 - ... purpose, full and accurate account of all moneys received and paid by him on account of the...
Page 232 - Her Majesty's justices of the peace acting in and for the county [or...
Page 420 - ... for the plaintiff, leave being reserved to the defendants to move to enter a nonsuit.
Page 424 - A person who puts another in his place to do a class of acts in his absence necessarily leaves him to determine, according to the circumstances that arise, when an act of that class is to be done, and trusts him for the manner in which it is done ; and consequently he is held answerable for the wrong of the person so intrusted either in the manner of doing such an act, or in doing such an act under circumstances in which it ought not to have been done ; provided that what was done was done, not from...
Page 455 - ... more properly, ceases to be available as a condition, and becomes a warranty in the narrower sense of the word — viz., a stipulation by way of agreement, for the breach of which a compensation must be sought in damages.
Page 433 - A rule nisi was afterwards obtained for a nonsuit, or for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence.