The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility. 1785-1866, Volume 140

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Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead
Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1913 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 631 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence. But where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as, in the ordinary course of things, does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendants, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 185 - ... and the survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor...
Page 154 - ... person by their or either of their order, or for their or either of their use...
Page 121 - directed" that the property " should and might be leased" by his two trustees, " and the survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivor, at rack rent," for any term not exceeding twenty-one years.
Page 339 - In the following Term a rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the grounds of improper reception of evidence and misdirection.
Page 563 - REPORTS. 1864. schedule filed was a true copy of the original bill of sale and schedule ; and a verdict was entered for the plaintiff, leave being reserved to the defendant to move to enter the verdict for him.
Page 443 - perils of the sea' whether understood in its most limited sense as importing a lose by natural accidents peculiar to that element, or whether understood in its more extended sense as including inevitable accidents...
Page 575 - Act it would have been necessary to allege the right to have existed from time immemorial, it shall be sufficient to allege the enjoyment thereof as of right...
Page 83 - Where the person or persons entitled to any beneficial interest in such property shall be the brother or sister or a descendant of a brother or sister of the decedent, a wife or widow of a son, or the husband of a daughter of the decedent.
Page 785 - In witness whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath affirmed to three Bills of Lading, all of this Tenor and Date, One of which three Bills being Accomplished, the other two to stand Void.

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