Leading Statutes Summarised for the Use of Students, Volume 455

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Stevens & Haynes, 1878 - English law - 128 pages
 

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Page 38 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Page 7 - no action shall be brought, whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate...
Page 7 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto...
Page 7 - ... the buyer shall accept part of the goods or choses in action so contracted to be sold or sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract or sale be signed by the party to be charged or his agent in that behalf.
Page 38 - AN INDEX TO TEN THOUSAND PRECEDENTS IN CONVEYANCING, AND TO COMMON AND COMMERCIAL FORMS. Arranged in Alphabetical order with Subdivisions of an Analytical Nature ; together with an Appendix containing an Abstract of the Stamp Act, 1870, with a Schedule of Duties ; the Regulations relative to, and the Stamp Duties payable on, Probates of Wills, Letters of Administration, Legacies, and Successions. By WALTER ARTHUR COPINGER, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Author of "The Law of Copyright in...
Page 15 - THE LAW OF EVIDENCE, As Administered in England and applied to India. New Edition, with Supplement ; containing the Indian Evidence Acts, the Oaths Acts, and the Code of Criminal Procedure so far as it relates to Evidence. By LA GOODEVE, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, late Assistant Secretary to the Government of Bengal (Legislative Department).
Page 34 - BELLEWE'S CASES, T. RICHARD II. In 8vo., 1869, price 3/. 3^., bound in calf antique, LES ANS DU ROY RICHARD LE SECOND. Collect* ensembl* hors les abridgments de Statham, Fitzherbert, et Brooke.
Page 20 - INSTITUTES OF GAIUS AND JUSTINIAN. With copious References arranged in Parallel Columns, also Chronological and Analytical Tables, Lists of Laws, &c. &*c. Primarily designed for the Use of Students preparing for Examination at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court. BY SEYMOUR F. HARRIS, BCL, MA, OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AUTHOR OF " UNIVERSITIES AND LEGAL EDUCATION.
Page 37 - ... law relating to joint-stock companies . . . Law students may well read it ; for Mr. Smith has very wisely been at the pains of giving his authority for all his statements of the law or of practice, as applied to joint-stock company business usually transacted in solicitors
Page 11 - This work, considered either as to its matter or manner of execution, is no ordinary work. It is a complete and exhaustive treatise both as to the law and the practice of granting injunctions. It must supersede all other works on the subject. The terse statement of the practice will be found of incalculable alue.

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