The Scottish Law Review and Reports of Cases in the Sheriff Courts of Scotland, Volume 30W. Hodge & Company, 1914 - Law |
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Page 371 - A weekly payment, or a sum paid by way of redemption thereof, shall not be capable of being assigned, charged, or attached, and shall not pass to any other person by operation of law, nor shall any claim be set off against the same.
Page 253 - ... the Public Health Act 1848. This provided: That full Compensation shall be made out of the General or Special District Rates to be levied under this Act, to all Persons sustaining any Damage by reason of the Exercise of any of the Powers of this Act...
Page 258 - Any difference arising under this section shall be determined by an arbitrator to be appointed by the Board of Trade at the instance of either party.
Page 238 - Scotland, to the same effect as if a decree of adjudication in implement of sale, as well as a decree of adjudication for payment and in security of debt, subject to no legal reversion, had been pronounced in favour of the trustee, and recorded at the date of the sequestration...
Page 353 - Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any of the following agreements namely, 1.
Page 203 - When the contract was made, the law would imply an engagement that each vessel would perform its duty in completing it ; that proper skill and diligence would be used on board of each ; and that neither vessel, by neglect or misconduct, would create unnecessary risk to the other, or increase any risk which might be incidental to the service undertaken.
Page 82 - Action for damages for non-acceptance of the goods. (1) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. (2) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting, in the ordinary course of events, from the buyer's breach of contract.
Page 203 - ... arise. Such an accident would be one of the necessary risks of the engagement to which each party was subject, and could create no liability on the part of the other. If, on the other hand, the wrongful act of either occasioned any damage to the other, such wrongful act would create a responsibility on the party committing it, if the sufferer had not by any misconduct or unskilfulness on her part contributed to the accident.
Page 233 - ... direct any further notices to be given. (2) No objection which could be made under this Act shall be otherwise made or allowed in any Court proceeding or manner whatsoever. (3) The costs of any proceedings before a Court of summary jurisdiction in relation to objections under this Act shall be in the discretion of the Court, and the Court, shall have power if it thinks fit, to direct that the whole or any part of such costs ordered to be paid by an objector or objectors shall be paid in the first...
Page 105 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labour as he wills.