Principles of the Common Law: An Elementary Work Intended for the Use of Students and the Profession |
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33 Vict actually Addison on Torts agent agreement amount assault bailee bailment banker bankruptcy bill of exchange bill of sale bind breach Broom's Coms Brown's Law Dict carrier chattels cheque Chitty on Contracts chose in action common law consideration contributory negligence Court creditors damages debt debtor deed defendant delivered effect entitled equity estoppel execution executor fact fixtures fraud give given held hereon husband Ibid implied indorsement injury instrument judgment Judicature Act jury land landlord lease liable libel Lord malice marriage matter ment nature necessary negligence notice nuisance ordinary owner paid partner party pawnbroker payable payment person plaintiff possession Powell's Evidence promise promissory notes reason recover remedy rent respect rule Sect servant shew shewn simple contract slander Slander and Libel solicitor statute Statute of Frauds sufficient tenant tender thereof tion trespass unless vendee vendor warranty witness words writing
Popular passages
Page 75 - By the seventeenth section, it is enacted that " no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of £,10 sterling, or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 243 - ... no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business or work of their ordinary callings, upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted...
Page 117 - The advance of money by way of loan to a person engaged or about to engage in any business on a contract with that person that the lender shall receive a rate of interest varying with the profits...
Page 124 - Any absolute assignment by writing under the hand of the assignor (not purporting to be by way of charge only...
Page 369 - upon all debts or sums certain payable at a certain time or otherwise, the jury on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest, from the time when such debts or sums certain were payable, if such debts or sums be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time...
Page 175 - That no action shall be maintained whereby to charge any person upon any promise made, after full age, to pay any debt contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification, after full age...
Page 75 - ... be actually made, procured, or provided, or fit, or ready for delivery, or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery...
Page 45 - In one volume, 8vo., 1870, price cloth, THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT, In Works of Literature and Art ; including that of the Drama, Music, Engraving, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, and Ornamental and Useful Designs ; together with International and Foreign Copyright, with the Statutes relating thereto, and References to the English and American Decisions. By WALTER ARTHUR COPINGER, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. ^ "A book that is certainly themost complete treatise upon the complex subject of...
Page 239 - Viet. c. 109, s. 18, it is enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 34 - CUNNINGHAM'S (T.) Reports in KB, 7 to 10 Geo. II. ; to which is prefixed a Proposal for rendering the Laws of England clear and certain, humbly offered to the Consideration of both Houses of Parliament.