The Digest of English Case Law Containing the Reported Decisions of the Superior Courts: And a Selection from Those of the Irish Courts [from 1557] to the End of 1897, 4. köideSweet and Maxwell, 1898 |
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Page 121
... ment for a lease , the formation of a company or appointment of a nominee was a condition pre- cedent , and that the plaintiff could not maintain an action for specific performance of the con- tract , as he had not performed the ...
... ment for a lease , the formation of a company or appointment of a nominee was a condition pre- cedent , and that the plaintiff could not maintain an action for specific performance of the con- tract , as he had not performed the ...
Page 135
... ment shall be made , and eight months longer will be given on your paying interest on the amount at the rate of five per cent . and if a further three months is required , it will be given on your paying the current rate of interest on ...
... ment shall be made , and eight months longer will be given on your paying interest on the amount at the rate of five per cent . and if a further three months is required , it will be given on your paying the current rate of interest on ...
Page 141
... ment to Finance . ] — Where a company contracted with a bank that the bank should , within certain limits of time , pay to the company sterling money or an equivalent in exchange for the company's silver at a specified rate , and that ...
... ment to Finance . ] — Where a company contracted with a bank that the bank should , within certain limits of time , pay to the company sterling money or an equivalent in exchange for the company's silver at a specified rate , and that ...
Page 147
... ment had been made as to the manner of pay- ment , for the defendant , by refusing to enter into any agreement , had rendered the perform- ance impossible . Hall v . Conder , 2 C. B. ( N.S. ) 53 ; 26 L. J. , C. P. 288 ; 3 Jur . ( N.S. ) ...
... ment had been made as to the manner of pay- ment , for the defendant , by refusing to enter into any agreement , had rendered the perform- ance impossible . Hall v . Conder , 2 C. B. ( N.S. ) 53 ; 26 L. J. , C. P. 288 ; 3 Jur . ( N.S. ) ...
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... ment between claimants to divide the property is valid . Hotchkis v . Dickson , 2 Bligh , 348 ; 21 R. R. 89 . Where Suspicion of Undue Influence . ] - Con- tracts contrary to the policy of the law , as a deed of gift by a client to an ...
... ment between claimants to divide the property is valid . Hotchkis v . Dickson , 2 Bligh , 348 ; 21 R. R. 89 . Where Suspicion of Undue Influence . ] - Con- tracts contrary to the policy of the law , as a deed of gift by a client to an ...
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Page 69 - 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 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 73 - 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 123 - The test," says Judge Duncan in Swan v. Scott, 11 Serg. & R. 164, "whether a demand connected with an illegal transaction is capable of being enforced at law, is whether the plaintiff requires the aid of the illegal transaction to establish his case.
Page 83 - Now, an implied warranty, or, as it is called, a covenant in law, as distinguished from an express contract or express warranty, really is in all cases founded on the presumed intention of the parties, and upon reason. The implication which the law draws from what must obviously have been the intention of the parties, the law draws with the object of giving efficacy to the transaction and preventing such a failure of consideration as cannot have been within the contemplation of either side...
Page 123 - The general rule is that where you cannot sever the illegal from the legal part of a covenant, the contract is altogether void; but, where you can sever them, whether the illegality be created by statute or by the common law, you may reject the bad part and retain the good.
Page 113 - There seems no doubt that where there is a positive contract to do a thing, not in itself unlawful, the contractor must perform it or pay damages for not doing it, although in consequence of unforeseen accidents, the performance of his contract has become unexpectedly burdensome or even impossible.
Page 59 - B. and the survivor of them, and the executors or administrators of such survivor...
Page 117 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 681 - Master shall direct ; and any of the Parties are to be at liberty to apply to the Court as there shall be Occasion.