 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...the establishment of particular trades or occupations. Mr. Justice Story describes a good will to be the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment, beyond the mere value of the capital, stocks, funds, or property employed therein, in consequenceof the general public patronage and encouragement,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Partnership - 1846 - 796 pages
...called the good-will of the trade or business. This good -will may be properly enough described to be the advantage or benefit, which is acquired by an...local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances, or necessities, or even... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 830 pages
...Story in his work on Partnerships, at section 99, is a fair one. He describes "good-will" as being — "The advantage or benefit which is acquired by an...local position or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances or necessities, or even... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County) - 1853 - 612 pages
...the meaning of this term. Mr. Justice Story says : " Good-will may be properly enough described to be the advantage or benefit, which is acquired by an...local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from accidental circumstances, or necessities, or even from... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1860 - 620 pages
...place." Judge STORY describes it as " the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an Howe agt. Searing. establishment beyond the mere value of the capital,...therein, in consequence of the general public patronage which it receives from constant or habitual customers, on account of its local position, or common... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1929 - 762 pages
...is not susceptible of being disposed of independently. Mr. Justice Story defined good will to be ' the advantage or benefit, which is acquired by an...local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances or necessity, or even from... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...following definition by Jndge Story commends itself for its clearness and vast comprehension: 'Good-will is the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment,...beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or other property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - Insurance - 1878 - 660 pages
...GOODWILL. — The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a bus. beyond the mere value of the cap. stock, funds, or property employed therein ; in consequence...which it receives from constant or habitual customers. It is considered a subject of sale along with the stock and premises. — Wharton's law Lex. In the... | |
 | California - Civil law - 1872 - 728 pages
...not include a right to use the name of any person from whom it was acquired. , NOTE. — Good will is the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment beyond the mere value of the capital, stocks, funds, or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 802 pages
...a concern, both in fact and in the estimation of a court of equity." Judge Story defines it as " an advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment,...customers, on account of its local position, or common o-eiebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances... | |
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Good will may be properly enough described to be the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds or property employed therein in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement... 
