Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law: With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 37T. & J.W. Johnson, 1865 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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act of parliament action admitted affidavit aforesaid agreement alleged amount appears applied appointed arbitrator arrest assigns assumpsit attorney authority averment award bailiff Bank of England bankrupt bill borough claim COLERIDGE collector commissioners consideration contended contrà contract costs Court Court of Chancery creditors damages debt declaration defendant defendant's delivered demurrer discharged duty election entered entitled estoppel evidence execution executors fact fendant fraud give given ground held issue judgment jurisdiction jury justices lands learned judge liable LITTLEDALE Lord DENMAN lordships mandamus ment mentioned Nisi Prius nonsuit notice objection opinion paid parish party PATTESON payment person plaintiff plea pleaded possession premises proceedings promissory note proved quarter sessions question railway referred refused replication respect rule nisi sect sessions sheriff showed cause stat statute Statute of Frauds sufficient surety tenant term thereof TINDAL tion trial trover verdict warrant writ
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Page 330 - ... furnishes in this case an exception to the general rule. What, then, is the custom in this respect? It is, that the holder of the bill shall present the instrument, at its maturity, to the acceptor, demand payment of its amount, and, upon receipt of the money, deliver up the bill. The acceptor paying the bill has a right to the possession of the instrument for his own security, and as his voucher, and discharge pro tanto, in his account with the drawer.
Page 654 - Pogson (one of the defendants) enceinte, and having first duly made and published his last will and testament in writing, bearing date on or about the...
Page 392 - ... of any borough in which a separate court of quarter sessions of the peace shall be holden...
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Page 650 - CD, if he shall be found in your bailiwick, and him safely keep, so that you may have his body before us [or in the Common Pleas
Page 651 - AB, as for his costs and charges by him about his suit in that behalf expended...
Page 520 - That every estoppel ought to be reciprocal, that is, to bind both parties ; and this is the reason that regularly a stranger shall neither take advantage nor be bound by the estoppel : privies in blood, as the heir ; privies in estate, as, the feoffee, lessee, &c.
Page 674 - That the Inhabitants of every Parish maintaining its own Highways, at their First Meeting in Vestry for the Nomination of Overseers of the Poor in every Year shall proceed to the Election of One or more Persons to serve the Office of Surveyor in the said Parish for the Year then next ensuing...