 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880
...or false, is wholly immaterial ( Wright v. Snowe, 2 DeG. g Sm. S2T); for the affirmation of what oue does not know or believe to be true, is equally, in...affirmation of what is known to be positively false. Anslie v. Medlycott, 9 Ves. 21 ; Taylor v. Ashton, 11 M. g W. 401 ; Doggelt v. Emmerson, 3 Story C.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 712 pages
...be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or...affirmation of what is known to be positively false. 5 And even if the party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive; for it... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846
...knew it to be false, or made the assertion without any precise knowledge on the subject is immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know, or...affirmation of what is known to be positively false. So if a party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive ; for it operates... | |
 | William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 685 pages
...false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial ; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or...false. And even if the party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive ; for it operates as a surprise and imposition on the other... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1847
...be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...what is known to be positively false. And even if a party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive, for it operates as a... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841
...be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...affirmation of what is known to be positively false," and he adds, "even if the party innocently misrepresents a material fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1847
...whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial ; for the affirmation of what one does not knnw, or believe to be true, is equally in morals and law,...unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positive, ly false. And even if the party innocently misrepresents a fact by mistake, it is equally... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1847 - 386 pages
...be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true in equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849
...be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial. For the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...affirmation of what is known to be positively false." Story's Com. on Eq. §193. This rule of manifest equity and sound morality, we have seen, was recognized... | |
 | Maryland. Courts: High Court of Chancery - Equity - 1851
...party believed in its truth, and, if it is false, is deceived by it. For, as Mr. Justice Story says, "the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...and law as unjustifiable, as the affirmation of what one knows to be positively false." 1 Story's Eq., sec., 193. Now, it may very well be, that the defendant,... | |
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Whether the party thus misrepresenting a fact knew it to be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and... 
