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" This is not the true principle : it is this ; he who affirms either what he does not know to be true, or knows to be false, to another's prejudice and his own gain, is both in morality and law guilty of falsehood, and must answer in damages. "
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama - Page 324
by Alabama. Supreme Court - 1841
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common ..., Volume 4

Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 810 pages
...action on, and that there is no contract in this case. This is not the true principle : it is this ; he who affirms either what he does not know to be...morality and law guilty of falsehood, and must answer in damages. But here is a contract : the Plaintiff is hired by Defendant to sell, which implies a warranty...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common ..., Volume 12

Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 686 pages
...is not the true principle; it is this — he who affirms, to another's prejudice and his own gain, either what he does not know to be true, or knows to be false, is both in morality and law guilty of falsehood, and must answer in damages. But here is a contract....
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Reports of Cases Upon Appeals and Writs of Error in the House of ..., Volume 2

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Patrick Dow, Charles Clarke - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 552 pages
...principle of law, that he who affirms either that which he does not know to be true, or that which he knows to be false, to another's prejudice, and his own gain, is a wrong-doer, and must answer in damages for the injury occasioned by such falsehood. Secondly. —...
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Reports of Cases Upon Appeals and Writs of Error in the ..., Part 130, Volume 2

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 534 pages
...principle of law, that he who affirms either that which he does not know to be true, or that which he knows to be false, to another's prejudice, and his own gain, is a wrong-doer, and must answer in damages for the injury occasioned by such falsehood. Secondly.—That...
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New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords: On Appeals and ..., Volume 5

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 794 pages
...principle of law, that he who affirms either that which he does not know to be true, or that which he knows to be false, to another's prejudice and his own gain, is a wrong-doer, and must answer in damages for the injury occasioned by such falsehood. ' It appears...
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New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords: On Appeals and ..., Volume 5

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 798 pages
...principle of law, that he who affirms either that which he does not know to be true, or that which he knows to be false, to another's prejudice and his own gain, is a wrong-doer, and must answer in damages for the injury occasioned by such falsehood. It appears by...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's ..., Volume 5

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 1232 pages
...for believing, and do it for their own advantage. In Adamson v. against Jarvis (a), Best CJ says, " he who affirms either what he does not know to be...morality and law guilty of falsehood, and must answer in damages." And in Humphry* v. Pratt (6) the same proposition was relied upon for the defendant in...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's ..., Part 20

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Henry Davison, Herman Merivale - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 854 pages
...laid down is, that he \vho affirms either that which he does not know to be true, or that which he knows to be false, to another's prejudice and his own gain, is a wrong doer and must answer in damages for the injury occasioned by his falsehood. The facts in the...
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A Treatise on the Law of Principal and Agent: Chiefly with Reference to ...

William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 732 pages
...action on, and that there is no contract in this case. This is not the true principle : it is this, he who affirms either what he does not know to be...morality and law, guilty of falsehood, and must answer in damages. But here is a contract : the plaintiff is hired by the defendant to sell, which implies...
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The Law of Contracts: In a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Law Institution

John William Smith - Contracts - 1847 - 438 pages
...BEST CJ, exactly to the same efflct, in Adamson v. Jarvis, A damson v. 4Bing.66: "He who affirms B^tTl either what he does not know to be true, or knows...morality and law, guilty of falsehood, and must answer in damages." " In the case of Humphrys Humpbrys v. Pratt, 5 Bligh, NI 154., "• Prattf Now, with regard...
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