The Scottish Law Review and Reports of Cases in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland, Volume 23W. Hodge & Company, 1907 - Law |
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... seems designed in the first instance to apply to political corruption , but its provisions seem wide enough to stop all tipping , or the granting of commissions on obtaining orders for goods or the acceptance of reward for obtaining ...
... seems designed in the first instance to apply to political corruption , but its provisions seem wide enough to stop all tipping , or the granting of commissions on obtaining orders for goods or the acceptance of reward for obtaining ...
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... seem so . The Attorney - General's plan might only have scotched them , but the Lord Chancellor's must have killed them outright ; and there seems no excuse even for their ghosts to return to vex the Courts . The peculiar char ...
... seem so . The Attorney - General's plan might only have scotched them , but the Lord Chancellor's must have killed them outright ; and there seems no excuse even for their ghosts to return to vex the Courts . The peculiar char ...
Page 43
... seems the more likely view ) -the whole provisions of this Act are only applicable as regards the two classes of judicial officers we have referred to , and therefore it seems almost a misnomer to call the statute of 1880 a Judicial ...
... seems the more likely view ) -the whole provisions of this Act are only applicable as regards the two classes of judicial officers we have referred to , and therefore it seems almost a misnomer to call the statute of 1880 a Judicial ...
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... seems to be that possession without title , short of the prescriptive period , will not entitle the possessor to take the compensation out of Court . The latest case bearing on the subject is No. 9 in the Notes of English Cases for last ...
... seems to be that possession without title , short of the prescriptive period , will not entitle the possessor to take the compensation out of Court . The latest case bearing on the subject is No. 9 in the Notes of English Cases for last ...
Page 75
... seems therefore now to be thoroughly established ; and it furnishes another illustration of the character of our common law and of its power to chastise of its own native vigour all wrongs and disorders as the state of society brings ...
... seems therefore now to be thoroughly established ; and it furnishes another illustration of the character of our common law and of its power to chastise of its own native vigour all wrongs and disorders as the state of society brings ...
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Page 51 - Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish; - be it so! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Page 79 - And, further, you will observe that in section 7 it is provided "every person who with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — "1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or "2.
Page 80 - ... (4) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be...
Page 79 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 80 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 84 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labour as he wills.
Page 83 - An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
Page 77 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful, so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
Page 339 - ... by a person in the same grade employed at the same work by the same employer, or, if there is no person so employed, by a person in the same grade employed In the same class of employment and In the same district...
Page 179 - ... any person who has entered into or works under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether by way of manual labour, clerical work, or otherwise, and whether the contract is expressed or implied, is oral or in writing...