The Law Reports: Court of Common Pleas, Volume 8Incorporated council of law reporting for England and Wales, 1873 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... evidence that it was signed in its existing form by negligence or mistake . The bill of lading , according to its legal construction , made Messrs . Chapple & Co. liable for a loss of the goods by jettison , the result of their being ...
... evidence that it was signed in its existing form by negligence or mistake . The bill of lading , according to its legal construction , made Messrs . Chapple & Co. liable for a loss of the goods by jettison , the result of their being ...
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... evidence , the fore- man of the jury upon Monday , the 102nd day of the trial , address- ing himself to the Chief Justice , read from a written paper the following : " We have now heard the evidence regarding the tattoo - marks ; and ...
... evidence , the fore- man of the jury upon Monday , the 102nd day of the trial , address- ing himself to the Chief Justice , read from a written paper the following : " We have now heard the evidence regarding the tattoo - marks ; and ...
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... evidence given for the defendant . Hawkins , Q.C. , H. Matthews , Q C. , and Purcell , in support of the motion , relied on Doe d . Chadwick v . Law ( 3 ) ; Harvey d . Beal v . Baker ( 4 ) ; Prowse v . Loxdale . ( 5 ) They further ...
... evidence given for the defendant . Hawkins , Q.C. , H. Matthews , Q C. , and Purcell , in support of the motion , relied on Doe d . Chadwick v . Law ( 3 ) ; Harvey d . Beal v . Baker ( 4 ) ; Prowse v . Loxdale . ( 5 ) They further ...
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... evidence given on the part of the defendants . But , the jury having , after an unusually protracted trial , delibe- rately pronounced an opinion which was equivalent to a verdict for the defendants , the plaintiff's counsel acquiesced ...
... evidence given on the part of the defendants . But , the jury having , after an unusually protracted trial , delibe- rately pronounced an opinion which was equivalent to a verdict for the defendants , the plaintiff's counsel acquiesced ...
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... evidence of the defendants ' liability ; the Court to have power to draw inferences of fact . A rule nisi was accordingly obtained . Holker , Q.C. , and Gully , shewed cause . The question whether demurrage is due , and if so , how much ...
... evidence of the defendants ' liability ; the Court to have power to draw inferences of fact . A rule nisi was accordingly obtained . Holker , Q.C. , and Gully , shewed cause . The question whether demurrage is due , and if so , how much ...
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Page 138 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 651 - ... arrests, restraints, and detainments of all kings, princes, and people, of what nation, condition, or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes, that have or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, &c., or any part thereof.
Page 588 - ... but 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...
Page 178 - On the other hand, the promisee may, if he thinks proper, treat the repudiation of the other party as a wrongful putting an end to the contract, and may at once bring his action as on a breach of it; and in such action he will be entitled to such damages as would have arisen from the non-performance of the contract at the appointed time, subject, however, to abatement in respect of any circumstances which may have afforded him the means of mitigating his loss.
Page 597 - Be it known that as well in own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in part or in all...
Page 581 - These authorities seem to support the proposition, which appears on principle to be very reasonable, that, where a contract is made with reference to certain anticipated circumstances, and where, without any default of either party, it becomes wholly inapplicable to or impossible of application to any such circumstances, it ceases to have any application; it cannot be applied to other circumstances which could not have been in the contemplation of the parties when the contract was made.
Page 58 - Under the direction of the learned judge, a verdict was entered for the plaintiff, leave being reserved to the defendant to move to enter the verdict for him if the court should be of opinion that what he did was not an infringement within the above statutes.
Page 456 - Term, when a verdict was found for the defendants, leave being reserved to the plaintiff to move to enter a verdict for...
Page 168 - That all conditions were fulfilled, and all things happened and all times elapsed necessary to entitle the plaintiff to have the said agreement performed by the defendant on his part, yet the defendant did not pay the plaintiff the remainder of the said purchase-money as aforesaid on his part.
Page 133 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.