The Law of Torts Or Private Wrongs, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1866 - Torts |
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Page 17 - Office a written description of the same, and of the manner and process of making, constructing, compounding, and using it, in such full, clear, concise and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same...
Page 16 - That any person or persons having discovered or invented any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, not known or used by others before his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not, at the time of his application for a patent, in public use or on sale, with his consent or allowance, as the inventor or discoverer...
Page 93 - In form it is a fiction : in substance, a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use.
Page 51 - ... be composed under such employment, on the terms that the copyright therein shall belong to such proprietor...
Page 52 - And with regard to any new or original design for any article of manufacture having reference to some purpose of utility, so far as such' design shall be for the shape or configuration of such article...
Page 180 - An officer de facto is one who exercises the duties of an office under color of an appointment or election to that office.
Page 136 - Fraud, in the sense of a court of equity, properly includes all acts, omissions and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence, justly reposed, and which are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another.
Page 62 - ... the essence of the wrong consists in the sale of the goods of one manufacturer or vendor as those of another ; and that it is only when this false representation is directly or indirectly made that the party who appeals to a court of equity can have relief.
Page 344 - ... to new institutions and conditions of society, new modes of commerce, new usages and practices, as the progress of society in the advancement of civilization may require.
Page 188 - Where a magistrate has a general jurisdiction over the subject-matter, and a party comes before him and prefers a complaint upon which the magistrate makes a mistake in thinking it a case within his authority, and grants a warrant which is not justifiable in point of law, the party complaining is not liable as a trespasser, but the only remedy against him is, by an action upon the case, if he has acted maliciously.