The Honours Examination Digest: Comprising All the Questions in Convenancing, Equity, Common Law, Bankruptcy, Probate, Divorce, Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Law and Practice Asked at the Solicitors' Honours Examinations Since Their Establishment to the Present Time, with All the Answers Thereto |
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... Contract Dering v . Earl of Winchelsea Dicks v . Lambert . Downes v . Ship Dunnidge v . White Durant v . Durant . Dyer v . Dyer v . Rylands 187 248 Flight v . Bolland . Florence , The 347 58 Flying Fish , The . Forth v . Stanton 111 291 ...
... Contract Dering v . Earl of Winchelsea Dicks v . Lambert . Downes v . Ship Dunnidge v . White Durant v . Durant . Dyer v . Dyer v . Rylands 187 248 Flight v . Bolland . Florence , The 347 58 Flying Fish , The . Forth v . Stanton 111 291 ...
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... contract ; or if the specialty creditors exhausted the personalty , the simple contract creditors were suffered to stand in their place against the real assets , but only to the extent to which the personalty had been applied in payment ...
... contract ; or if the specialty creditors exhausted the personalty , the simple contract creditors were suffered to stand in their place against the real assets , but only to the extent to which the personalty had been applied in payment ...
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... contracts with B. to build certain premises by a given date . The agreement contains various conditions and stipulations , and finally a provision that if the contract be not in all things duly performed by the contractor , that he ...
... contracts with B. to build certain premises by a given date . The agreement contains various conditions and stipulations , and finally a provision that if the contract be not in all things duly performed by the contractor , that he ...
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... Contracts , 10th ed . , p . 809 , deduces from the cases the following rule : - : - The Courts will hold that the ... contract , such sum will not be treated as a penalty , even though it is apparent on the face of the agreement that ...
... Contracts , 10th ed . , p . 809 , deduces from the cases the following rule : - : - The Courts will hold that the ... contract , such sum will not be treated as a penalty , even though it is apparent on the face of the agreement that ...
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... contract . Advise A. as to his legal rights under the above circumstances . A. was justified , after B.'s declaration of insolvency , in refusing to deliver the January instalment , and consequently the trustee cannot recover any ...
... contract . Advise A. as to his legal rights under the above circumstances . A. was justified , after B.'s declaration of insolvency , in refusing to deliver the January instalment , and consequently the trustee cannot recover any ...
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Page 356 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 243 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 176 - A mandamus or an injunction may be granted or a receiver appointed by an interlocutory order of the Court in all cases in which it shall appear to the Court to be just or convenient that such order should be made...
Page 328 - ... or any other words which may import either a want or failure of issue of any person in his lifetime or at the time of his death, or an indefinite failure of his issue, shall be construed to mean a want or failure of issue in the lifetime or at the time of the death of such person, and not an indefinite failure of his issue, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will...
Page 265 - Our sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King.
Page 247 - Bequest shall not lapse, but shall take effect as if the Death of such Person had happened immediately after the Death of the Testator, unless a contrary Intention shall appear by the Will.
Page 35 - ... the same rules shall prevail and be observed as to the respective rights of secured and unsecured creditors, and as to debts and liabilities provable, and as to the valuation of annuities and future and contingent liabilities respectively, as may be in force for the time being under the law of bankruptcy with respect to the estates of persons adjudged bankrupt...
Page 167 - Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony; but before such last-mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such statement.
Page 134 - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 31 - Every share in any company shall be deemed and taken to have been issued and to be held subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash...