A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of King's Bench: Common Pleas, Exchequer, and at Nisi Prius ; and of the Rules of Court, from the Restoration in 1660, to Michaelmas Term, 4 Geo. IV. With Important Manuscript Cases, Alphabetically, Chronologically, and Systematically Arranged and Translated ; with Copius Notes and References to the Year Books, Analogous Adjudications, Text Writers, and Statutes, Specifying what Decisions Have Been Affirmed, Recognised, Qualified, Or Over-ruled ; Comprising a Practical Treatise on the Different Branches of the Common Law, Volume 10Treadway, 1831 - Law |
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... person to whom y the bill was really payable , it was a forgery , and could confer no title ; and therefore , it was competent for the defendant to show that the person who in- dorsed the bill was not the person in whose favour it was ...
... person to whom y the bill was really payable , it was a forgery , and could confer no title ; and therefore , it was competent for the defendant to show that the person who in- dorsed the bill was not the person in whose favour it was ...
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... person who does exist , without the consent of such person , as in the case of Rex v . Bolland , 1 Leach , C. L. 83. The present is a case where the name of a person who does not exist has been put to the note . Thomas Brown pro- duced ...
... person who does exist , without the consent of such person , as in the case of Rex v . Bolland , 1 Leach , C. L. 83. The present is a case where the name of a person who does not exist has been put to the note . Thomas Brown pro- duced ...
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... person for inmaterial whom they cashed a bill should indorse it , and he wrote the name John Wil- liams , his real name was Taft . The jury found him guilty , and were of opin- ion it was forgery ; for although the fictitious signature ...
... person for inmaterial whom they cashed a bill should indorse it , and he wrote the name John Wil- liams , his real name was Taft . The jury found him guilty , and were of opin- ion it was forgery ; for although the fictitious signature ...
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... person as it purported to be , and the using dit was giv a fictitious name was only for the purpose of deceiving . money is en to such person , in dependent 10. REX V. PEACOCK , Lent . Ass . 1814. Gloster . I Russ . and Ry , 278 . The ...
... person as it purported to be , and the using dit was giv a fictitious name was only for the purpose of deceiving . money is en to such person , in dependent 10. REX V. PEACOCK , Lent . Ass . 1814. Gloster . I Russ . and Ry , 278 . The ...
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... person , is C. 962 . Indictment that prisoner forged a note for payment of money , the tenor of which is as follows : " London , 27th July , 1765. I promise to pay Mr. Ed- ward Hooper , the sum of three pounds , thirteen shillings , and ...
... person , is C. 962 . Indictment that prisoner forged a note for payment of money , the tenor of which is as follows : " London , 27th July , 1765. I promise to pay Mr. Ed- ward Hooper , the sum of three pounds , thirteen shillings , and ...
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Popular passages
Page 183 - no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 309 - Scofield, which comprises all the principles of the former decisions, entirely governs the present case ; that so long as an act rests in bare intention, it is not punishable by our laws ; but immediately when an act is done, the law judges not only of the act done, but of the intent with which it is done ; and if accompanied with an unlawful and malicious intent, though the act itself would otherwise have been innocent, the intent being criminal, the act becomes criminal and punishable.
Page 68 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto...
Page 478 - ... being in insolvent circumstances, voluntarily convey, assign, transfer, charge, deliver, or make over any estate real or personal, security for money, bond, bill, note, money, property, goods, or effects whatsoever, to any creditor or creditors, or to any person or persons in trust for, or to or for the use, benefit, or advantage of any creditor or creditors, every such conveyance...
Page 66 - By the seventeenth section, it is enacted that " no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of £10 sterling, or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 476 - Prisoner in or to any Real and Personal Estate and Effects within this Realm or abroad which such Prisoner may purchase, or which may revert, descend, be devised or bequeathed, or come to him...
Page 309 - All offences of a public nature, that is, all such acts or attempts as tend to the prejudice of the community, are indictable.
Page 480 - ... creditors, together with the nature and amount of such debts and claims respectively, distinguishing such as shall be admitted from such as shall be disputed by such prisoner...
Page 368 - ... Duty, or upon any Person acting in aid of such Officer ; of any Assault upon...
Page 141 - ... mantrap, or other engine calculated to destroy human life or inflict grievous bodily harm, with the intent that the same or whereby the same may destroy or inflict grievous bodily harm...