The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States, Volume 6

Conway Robinson

A. Morris, 1870 - Actions and defenses

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FURTHER IN PERSONAL ACTIONS AS TO	1

In action on policy of insurance plea of illegality	7

Plea of breach of express warranty in a marine or other	8

When the validity of a policy is affected by fraud mis	41

Particularly of the plea to action on clause in policy	55

Of the plea to action on policy insuring life	80

Of the plea to action on clause in policy against	114

Of the plea to action on clause in policy against theft	124

PLEAS IN ACTIONS OF TRESPASS	622

93	640

Of the general issue in action of trespass When	643

General rules as to pleading specially in trespass	661

Plea that what is complained of as a trespass was a	684

Of the power of a coroner to decide for privacy in an inquest and the power of	700

Plea that what is complained of as a trespass was	726

91	731

Of the plea to action on clause in policy against perils	130

Operation of the general clause insuring against other perils losses and misfor	139

Of the maxim causa proxima et non remota spectatur	147

VOL VI	164

In action on marine policy plea of deviation from voy	222

47	232

In action on marine policy plea of breach of implied	247

When the policy is for a voyage how the rule as to implied warranty of seawor	257

49	270

Plea of matter after the policy and before the loss	283

Whether to constitute a breach of the condition the objectionable act must	299

Facts which had they been known to the insurers would have been a waiver	305

57	308

or has brought his action	313

Of reassurance and also of double insurance under cir	319

Title 2	326

Of the plea of an executor or administrator sued for breach since decedents death	334

An agreement that the tenant shall relinquish and the landlord resume possession	344

The transaction though not amounting to a surrender may be a contract remit	350

What acts of landlord will amount to eviction How eviction is defined by Jer	373

Whether in action on tenants agreement there can	388

69	395

When the arbitrators not agreeing there is an umpire who makes an award	413

Of objections to the award as uncertain or not final or being wanting in mutu	421

Of the objection that the award is not under hand and seal or was not delivered	427

Title 3	445

80	452

At common law executor or administrator had discretion as between debts	454

Whether at common law the validity of a payment is impaired by an action	460

References to the roman law by Sir Thomas Clarke and Sir George Turner Doc	486

In action against personal representative plea that	493

At common law a right of action against the executor or administrator does	499

84	506

In action for goods replevied plea of non cepit or	512

Exemptions by statute	528

Of parties who may order a distress	535

Of the statutes of 4 Geo 2 c 28 and 11 Id c 19 22 Especially of the general	543

447	549

Within what time and at what place the distress may be made and what	555

Whether bringing an ejectment is a bar to an avowry where plaintiff has executed	563

88	564

In replevin plea of acquittance or extinguishment	573

Where one distrains for another how his authority	585

Of the rule that the tenant though he cannot deny landlords title may shew	593

00	598

Of the plea in action for conversion of goods	599

Of defence on the ground of the jus tertii When it might before the rules	609

Of the masters power to sell ship or cargo When the sale is without necessity	615

Requisites of a plea justifying a distress before and since the stat 11 Geo 2 c	733

How under stat 11 Geo 2 c 19 7 entry may be made in order to distrain	740

When a constable arrests on suspicion of felony	747

265	749

Especially of acts of defendants done to provent irreverence or disturbance	755

Plea that the act complained of as a trespass was	762

Whether the plaintiff and his family being in a house affects the right to abate	771

Generally of the burthen of proof upon the issue as to property Particularly	773

95	780

Particularly of the case where the landlord enters upon the expiration of his ten	785

In action for breaking close plea by owner of freehold	793

In action for entering close and cutting or digging	799

Of delay before or during the voyage	808

Difference between land on a public road and on a river in respect to owners rights	814

To what port or ports the voyage may	817

In action for assault and battery or for assault battery	830

106	840

In action for battery or imprisonment plea of justifica	842

Mode of pleading at common law Especially of the general issue and the evi	852

As to plea of justification in cases of slander or libel Recent provision by statute	859

Of the plea in action for a conspiracy or for a mali	863

Whether since Underwood v Parks there may in mitigation of damages be evi	874

Under the general issue it may be shewn that the words were spoken or published	885

448	889

Whether in mitigation of damages evidence may be given of matter which occur	891

exposition	892

CHAP 62	901

Where the words are relative to ones business or to protect his interest Especi	912

Where the words are of a candidate for office	918

Further as to publishing account of proceedings in courts Ruling by the common	925

Further as to publishing proceedings in parliament Decision of La Denman C	932

As to publishing proceedings at a meeting of a vestry or of commissioners or	938

450	942

Where the words are in a criticism on a petition or any public matter whether	945

Where the words complained of are shewn to have	951

Plea in action against a sheriff or against a distrainor	970

Plea in action for obstruction of light or of right	977

Plea in action brought by or against parties shipping	986

Carrier may independently of statute shew that the goods were received on terms	993

Operation of the statute of 17 18 Vict c	1000

How far the carrier is exempt under the operation of pilot acts and of the act	1008

Particularly as to the passenger himself	1014

General principle as to altering the voyage or varying the chance Cases of	1045

454	1067

Where deviation is involuntary	1075

455	1093

919	1096

If the defendant confesses the use of the words in the sense imputed by	1102

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Common terms and phrases

abandonment action Adol aforesaid alleged assured attornment authority avowry award bailiff Barn barratry Bingh Burr cargo cited clause common law common pleas Conn considered contract court of exchequer Cowp Cranch Cress Cush damage debt declaration defendant demise demurrer detinue distrain distress Dougl East Eliz Ellenborough Excheq executor fact fire freight Gray held house of lords insured Johns judgment jurisdiction justice justified king's bench land landlord Law Rep lease lessee lessor liable Mass Massachusetts matter ment notice opinion owner party payment Penn peril person plaintiff pleaded port possession Pract premises queen's bench Raym recover rent replevin rule Salk says shew shewn ship Smith statute Taunt tenant Tenterden testator thereof tion total loss trespass underwriters vessel void voyage warrant Wend writ

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Title	The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States, Volume 6 The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States, Conway Robinson
Author	Conway Robinson
Publisher	A. Morris, 1870
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	6 Dec 2012

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