A Treatise on the Law of Contracts and Rights and Liabilities Ex Contractu

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Lea and Blanchard, 1847 - Contracts - 910 pages

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Contents

LIABILITIES OF PARTNERS INTER SE 459477
459
PARTNERSHIPS as regards tHE PUBLIC AND THIRD PARTIES 477501
477
Dower
481
Robson 282
497
Of the inability of one partner to bind his copartners by deed except by virtue of a special autho
501
Webster 701
516
SECTION II
521
Effect of complete registration 522Byelaws accounts and of the division of profits 523Sales
528
Fisk 289
532
SECTION III
535
SECTION I
540
SECTION II
552
Of the grant by the crown of certain corporate privileges to partnerships without incorporation
559
Incorporation of the company 562Transfers of shares 563Liabilities of the shareholders to
567
Marriage brokerage contracts 568570Contracts in restraint of marriage 571Bonds and uni
592
Marriage by banns 567Marriage by ordinary license 598Marriage by special license 599
599
Riley 229 230
633
CHAPTER XXII
641
Lord Petre 363
710
SECTION II
718
Booth 115
723
SECTION III
724
Pages 641735
735
CHAPTER XXIII
736
Bern 173
740
Of the nature and authentication of a contract of hiring and service 737Implied contracts of hiring
747
Nature and requisites of the contract 748Liabilities of the parties thereto 749Liability of
752
Work and service giving a right to remuneration 755757Honorary offices and employments
758
CHAPTER XXIV
776
SECTION II
791
Clostar
805
Definition of a common carrier 804Common carriage of passengers by coach 805Carriage
828
Nature and requisites of a mandate 840 841Liabilities and implied engagements of the manda
849
Richardson 710
859
Harrison v
865
Lea 127 161
866
SECTION II
872
Of the joinder of joint contractors as defendants in actions upon joint contracts 875Plea
882
LANDLORD AND TENANT 641718
898

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Page 418 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " 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 700 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 60 - ... no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds 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 809 - ... silks in a manufactured or. unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials...
Page 344 - ... in case there shall be no special occupant of any estate pur autre vie, whether freehold or customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether a corporeal or incorporeal hereditament, it shall go to the executor or administrator of the party that had the estate thereof by virtue of the grant...
Page 60 - ... be actually made, procured or provided or fit or ready for delivery, or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery...
Page 85 - ... upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Page 81 - ... shall at any time after the said four and twentieth day of June be assigned, granted or surrendered, unless it be by deed or note in writing, signed by the party so assigning, granting or surrendering the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, or by act and operation of law.
Page 147 - But a license to hunt in a man's park, and carry away the deer killed to his own use ; to cut down a tree in a man's ground, and to carry it away the next day after to his own use, are licenses as to the acts of hunting and cutting down the tree, but as to the carrying away of the deer killed and tree cut down, they are grants.
Page 110 - ... for the payment of any sum of money out of any particular fund which may or may not be available...

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