The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...E. B. Ince, 1874 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... taken part in the appointment of its liquidators . They had never down to that time made any attempt to disaffirm or avoid the contracts under which they took their shares , or to escape from the liabilities of their position of ...
... taken part in the appointment of its liquidators . They had never down to that time made any attempt to disaffirm or avoid the contracts under which they took their shares , or to escape from the liabilities of their position of ...
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... taken out . [ THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS pointed out that that was a suit by an administrator , while the present case was against an executor . ] In Douglas v . Forrest , 4 Bing . 686 ( 1827 ) , a plea of the Statute of Limitations failed ...
... taken out . [ THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS pointed out that that was a suit by an administrator , while the present case was against an executor . ] In Douglas v . Forrest , 4 Bing . 686 ( 1827 ) , a plea of the Statute of Limitations failed ...
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... taken to be made to any- one who was ignorant of these rules . The decisions , and the grounds on which they proceeded , appear to me to be ex- traordinary , and I cannot bring my mind to agree with them . In Scott and another v ...
... taken to be made to any- one who was ignorant of these rules . The decisions , and the grounds on which they proceeded , appear to me to be ex- traordinary , and I cannot bring my mind to agree with them . In Scott and another v ...
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... taken ) , and there was taken into account also the 500,000 , the sum which had been fixed upon as the estimated value of the good- will . In point of fact , therefore , your Lordships will observe that the use that was made of the ...
... taken ) , and there was taken into account also the 500,000 , the sum which had been fixed upon as the estimated value of the good- will . In point of fact , therefore , your Lordships will observe that the use that was made of the ...
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... taken into account for any purpose whatever , directly or indirectly , except such of the debts and liabilities contracted before the time when the past members left the company as might at that time constitute part of the indebted ...
... taken into account for any purpose whatever , directly or indirectly , except such of the debts and liabilities contracted before the time when the past members left the company as might at that time constitute part of the indebted ...
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Popular passages
Page 273 - ... if whatever a man's real intention may be he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally precluded from contesting its truth...
Page 50 - Court, to prosecute such offender, and all expenses properly incurred by them in such prosecution shall be payable out of the assets of the company in priority to all other liabilities.
Page 263 - England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account there...
Page 51 - No past member shall be liable to contribute in respect of any debt or liability of the company contracted after the time at which he ceased to be a member...
Page 350 - that in every case of any clerk in holy orders of the united Church of England and Ireland who may be charged with any offence against the laws ecclesiastical, or concerning whom there may exist scandal or evil report as having offended against the said laws, it shall be lawful for the bishop of the diocese within which the offence is alleged or reported to have been committed, on the application of any party complaining thereof, or if he shall think fit of his own mere motion, to issue a commission...
Page 443 - ... at the time of entering up the said judgment, or at any time afterwards, or over which such person shall, at the time of entering up such judgment, or at any time afterwards, have any disposing power which he might, without the assent of any other person, exercise for his own benefit...
Page 16 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall not extend to any will made before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and that every will re-executed or republished, or revived by any codicil, shall for the purposes of this act be deemed to have been made at the time at which the same shall be so re-executed, republished, or revived...
Page 409 - ... then this obligation to be void, or else to remain in full force and virtue of law.
Page 561 - That the jury, on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, give damages in the nature of interest, over and above the value of the goods at the time of the conversion or seizure...
Page 50 - Act being wound up, every present and past member of such company shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company to an amount sufficient for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company, and...