The New Zealand Law Reports

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New Zealand Council of Law Reporting, 1928 - Courts
Digest for 1903-1907 contains "Index of cases reported in the Gazette law reports and not reported in the New Zealand law reports."

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Page 267 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Page 720 - And, with respect to such a visitor at least, we consider it settled law, that he, using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, is entitled to expect that the occupier shall on his part use reasonable care to prevent damage from unusual danger, which he knows or ought to know...
Page 91 - The court after a final decree of nullity of marriage or dissolution of marriage may inquire into the existence of ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlements made on the parties whose marriage is the subject of the decree, and may make such orders with reference to the application of the whole or a portion of the property settled either for the benefit of the children of the marriage or of their respective parents as to the court shall seem fit.
Page 555 - If, for instance, they were found to be partial and unequal in their operation as between different classes; if they were manifestly unjust; if they disclosed bad faith; if they involved such oppressive or gratuitous interference with the rights of those subject to them as could find B no justification in the minds of reasonable men, the Court might well say, * Parliament never intended to give authority to make such rules; they are unreasonable and ultra vires'.
Page 199 - The Courts have, no doubt in many cases, overruled directors who proposed to pay dividends, but I am not aware of any case in which the Court has compelled them to pay when they have expressed their opinion that the state of the accounts do not admit of any such payment.
Page 308 - ... who ought to have been joined, or whose presence before the Court may be necessary in order to enable the Court effectually and completely to adjudicate upon and settle all the questions involved in the cause or matter, be added.
Page 646 - ... will not suffer them to depart from their contracts at their pleasure, leaving the party with whom they have contracted to the mere chance of any damages which a jury may give. The exercise of this jurisdiction has, I believe, had a wholesome tendency towards the maintenance of that good faith which exists in this country to a much greater degree perhaps than in any other ; and although the jurisdiction is not to be extended, yet a Judge would desert his duty who did not act up to what his predecessors...
Page 133 - ... or is absent without leave at any time within twenty-four hours of the ship's sailing from a port, either at the commencement or during the progress of a voyage...
Page 244 - ... of the reference, and in all other respects to conform to the provisions in that behalf contained in the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, or any then subsisting statutory modification thereof.

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