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... question of the purchase of the Irish railways by Government , and in par- ticular the report of the Parliamentary committee on the subject , agreed to at a meeting in London in July last . The matter is one of very great importance to ...
... question of the purchase of the Irish railways by Government , and in par- ticular the report of the Parliamentary committee on the subject , agreed to at a meeting in London in July last . The matter is one of very great importance to ...
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... question is , what is the loss according to the maritime law and the law of insurance . In the policy jettison is the generick name for loss by general average , and does not merely include the goods thrown overboard . No argument can ...
... question is , what is the loss according to the maritime law and the law of insurance . In the policy jettison is the generick name for loss by general average , and does not merely include the goods thrown overboard . No argument can ...
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... question of the sufficiency of those assents : That a deed under section 200 is not invali dated by containing other matter than that presented in schedule D. providing it do not neutralise the operative part of the deed : That a deed ...
... question of the sufficiency of those assents : That a deed under section 200 is not invali dated by containing other matter than that presented in schedule D. providing it do not neutralise the operative part of the deed : That a deed ...
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... question of degree . We believe that on the present occasion the lists will show that the Middle Temple has its proportion , if not more than its proportion , of university men , and if this condition of things continues , as in all or ...
... question of degree . We believe that on the present occasion the lists will show that the Middle Temple has its proportion , if not more than its proportion , of university men , and if this condition of things continues , as in all or ...
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... question - What is " the election , " the expenses of which are to be paid by this official ? Is the term limited by the limitation of time that makes a man " a candi- date " for the purposes of the Act ? If he is not to be deemed a ...
... question - What is " the election , " the expenses of which are to be paid by this official ? Is the term limited by the limitation of time that makes a man " a candi- date " for the purposes of the Act ? If he is not to be deemed a ...
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Page 43 - 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 44 - ... in the absence of any express or implied warranty that the thing shall exist, the contract is not to be construed as a positive contract, but as subject to an implied condition that the parties shall be excused in case, before breach, performance becomes impossible from the perishing of the thing without the default of the contractor.
Page 31 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 68 - ... and within the prescribed time after the notice is given any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the election to which the petition relates, may apply to the Court or Judge in, and at the prescribed manner, time, and place, to be substituted as a petitioner.
Page 31 - ... underground, and if, by the operation of the laws of nature, that accumulation of water had passed off into the close occupied by the Plaintiff, the Plaintiff could not have complained that that result had taken place. If he had desired to guard himself against it, it would have lain upon him to have done so, by leaving, or by interposing, some barrier between his close and the close of the Defendants in order to have prevented that operation of the laws of nature.
Page 31 - I may term a non-natural use, for the purpose of introducing into the close that which in its natural condition was not in or upon it, for the purpose of introducing water either above or below ground in quantities and in a manner not the result of any work or operation on or under the land; and if in consequence of their doing so, or in consequence of any imperfection in the mode of their doing so, the water came to escape and to pass off into the close of the plaintiff, then it appears to me that...
Page 31 - ... which was not naturally there, harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property...
Page 20 - Fourth (chapter seventyfour), "for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and " for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance...
Page 31 - ... which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour's, should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property. But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued, and it seems but just that he should at his peril keep it there so that no mischief may accrue, or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences. And upon authority, this we think is established to be the law whether the things so brought be beasts,...
Page 95 - Any company limited by shares may so far modify the conditions contained...