The American Law Register and Review, Volume 42University of Pennsylvania Press, 1894 - Electronic journals |
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... sufficient benefit or advantage to himself to impart to his promise the character of an original promise : Read v .. Nash , I Wils . , 355 ; Fish v . Hutchinson , 2 Wils . , 94 ; Simpson v . Patton NOVATION - STATUTE OF FRAUDS . 23.
... sufficient benefit or advantage to himself to impart to his promise the character of an original promise : Read v .. Nash , I Wils . , 355 ; Fish v . Hutchinson , 2 Wils . , 94 ; Simpson v . Patton NOVATION - STATUTE OF FRAUDS . 23.
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... sufficient considera- tion . " That consideration was self - interest . Defendant " was , at least , interested in effecting the sale of Watt's ( co - tenant's ) interest in the land because the sale of his own interest depended on that ...
... sufficient considera- tion . " That consideration was self - interest . Defendant " was , at least , interested in effecting the sale of Watt's ( co - tenant's ) interest in the land because the sale of his own interest depended on that ...
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... sufficient consideration for the express promise sued upon . The promise was to pay , not the promisor's own debt , but a debt due by her deceased husband , and such a promise to be the foundation of a suit , must be in writing , by the ...
... sufficient consideration for the express promise sued upon . The promise was to pay , not the promisor's own debt , but a debt due by her deceased husband , and such a promise to be the foundation of a suit , must be in writing , by the ...
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... sufficient to uphold a promise of a third person . " An agreement on the part of a creditor to forbear to sue a debtor is a good considera- tion to uphold a promise of a third person to pay the debt . " This case also lays down the rule ...
... sufficient to uphold a promise of a third person . " An agreement on the part of a creditor to forbear to sue a debtor is a good considera- tion to uphold a promise of a third person to pay the debt . " This case also lays down the rule ...
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... sufficient consideration . " Judg . ment for defendant below . Appar- ently the Court was of the opinion that the trusteeship of the father amounted to a consideration for his promise . The language of this case seems to furnish ...
... sufficient consideration . " Judg . ment for defendant below . Appar- ently the Court was of the opinion that the trusteeship of the father amounted to a consideration for his promise . The language of this case seems to furnish ...
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Page 169 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Page 345 - There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail ; it is not a privilege of a citizen of the state of or a citizen of the United States.
Page 281 - ... take possession of the books, records, and assets of every description of such association, collect all debts, dues, and claims belonging to such association, and, upon the order of a court of record of competent jurisdiction, may sell or compound all bad or doubtful debts, and, on a like order, sell all the real and personal...
Page 94 - 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 346 - ... when that which the legislature has done comes within the rule that, if a statute purporting to have been enacted to protect the public health, the public morals, or the public safety, has no real or substantial relation to those objects, or is, beyond all question, a plain, palpable invasion of rights secured by the fundamental law, it is the duty of the courts to so adjudge, and thereby give effect to the Constitution.
Page 520 - ... equidistant from those two corners which stand on the same line. Second. The boundary lines, actually run and marked in the surveys returned by the surveyor general, shall be established as the proper boundary lines of the sections, or subdivisions, for which they were intended, and the length of such lines, as returned, shall be held and considered as the true length thereof.
Page 424 - The American Constitution is no exception to the rule that everything which has power to win the obedience and respect of men must have its roots deep in the past, and that the more slowly every institution has grown, so much the more enduring is it likely to prove. There is little in this Constitution that is absolutely new. There is much that is as old as Magna Charta.
Page 424 - The general rule is, that the master is answerable for every such wrong of the servant or agent as is committed in the course of the service and for the master's benefit, though no express command or privity of the master be proved.
Page 527 - ... bounded on the northern and western lines of such townships shall be sold as containing only the quantity expressed in the returns and plats respectively, and all others as containing the complete legal quantity.
Page 106 - The first appropriator who subjects the property to use, or takes the necessary steps for that purpose, is regarded, except as against the Government, as the source of title in all controversies relating to the property. As respects the use of water for mining purposes, the doctrines of the common law declaratory of the rights of riparian owners were, at an early day after the discovery of gold, found to be inapplicable or applicable only in a very limited extent to the necessities of miners, and...