The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...E. B. Ince, 1873 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... question being of frequent recur- rence , and the law appearing to be un- settled , on the application of counsel for the defendant , I reserved for the opinion of this Honourable Court the question whether the definition of an assault ...
... question being of frequent recur- rence , and the law appearing to be un- settled , on the application of counsel for the defendant , I reserved for the opinion of this Honourable Court the question whether the definition of an assault ...
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... question is did they con- sent , for I think the act must be done contrary to their consent . Some parts of the ruling of the learned judge might be open to close criticism , but the substantial question is left whether the boys merely ...
... question is did they con- sent , for I think the act must be done contrary to their consent . Some parts of the ruling of the learned judge might be open to close criticism , but the substantial question is left whether the boys merely ...
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... question arising on this Act of Parliament is certainly not more obscure than the question in that case . The first and great object of this Act of Parliament is expressed clearly to be the connection of railways on one side of the ...
... question arising on this Act of Parliament is certainly not more obscure than the question in that case . The first and great object of this Act of Parliament is expressed clearly to be the connection of railways on one side of the ...
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... question is , has it carried out that view by what it has said ? It seems to me that it has , and not only so , but that the contrary opinion cannot be maintained without doing violence to the words of the Act . ( 6 ( L Now section 128 ...
... question is , has it carried out that view by what it has said ? It seems to me that it has , and not only so , but that the contrary opinion cannot be maintained without doing violence to the words of the Act . ( 6 ( L Now section 128 ...
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... question for the Court is- Whether the judgment so recovered by the defendant against the dock company was a valuable security for money in the pauper's possession or belonging to him within the meaning of the section so as to enable ...
... question for the Court is- Whether the judgment so recovered by the defendant against the dock company was a valuable security for money in the pauper's possession or belonging to him within the meaning of the section so as to enable ...
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Popular passages
Page 147 - Any exception, exemption, proviso, excuse or qualification, whether it does or does not accompany the description of the offence in this Act, may be proved by the defendant but need not be specified or negatived...
Page 98 - ... where there is any defect, imperfection, or omission in any pleading, whether in substance or form, which would have been a fatal objection upon demurrer ; yet if the issue joined be such as necessarily required on the trial proof of the facts so defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give, or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or omission, is cured by the verdict...
Page 122 - ... in respect of the proceedings of which minutes have been so made shall be deemed to have been duly held and convened, and all resolutions passed thereat or proceedings had, to have been duly passed and had...
Page 25 - Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months...
Page 94 - MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned...
Page 16 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Page 13 - 'the proper meaning of a privileged communication is only this : that the occasion on which the communication was made rebuts the inference prima facie arising from a statement prejudicial to the character of the plaintiff, and puts it upon him to prove that there was malice in fact — that the defendant was actuated by motives of personal spite or ill-will, independent of the occasion on which the communication was made,' " and Lord Lindley in Stuart v.
Page 65 - Magistrates, shall upon Proof of the Identity of the Person of the Offender, be sufficient Evidence of the First Conviction, without Proof of the Signature or official Character of the Person appearing to have signed the same...
Page 86 - the wrongful or fraudulent taking and carrying away by any person of the mere personal goods of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his (the taker's) own use, and make them his own property, without the consent of the owner.
Page 15 - And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm...