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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... reason of the premises , the plaintiffs , confiding in the defen- dant's performance of his said duty , and not knowing of the breach of the same , as aforesaid , and believing that the said statement so settled , adjusted , made up ...
... reason of the premises , the plaintiffs , confiding in the defen- dant's performance of his said duty , and not knowing of the breach of the same , as aforesaid , and believing that the said statement so settled , adjusted , made up ...
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... reason I think the plea is good . BRETT , J. The effect of the pleadings , taken together , appears to me to be , that there was an agreement by the parties to accept the decision of the defendant on a particular matter , if the defend ...
... reason I think the plea is good . BRETT , J. The effect of the pleadings , taken together , appears to me to be , that there was an agreement by the parties to accept the decision of the defendant on a particular matter , if the defend ...
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... reason thereof was sold by the plaintiffs at much lower and inferior prices than it might and would and ought to have been sold , and the plaintiffs also negligently and improperly sold the said rice at prices much below the market ...
... reason thereof was sold by the plaintiffs at much lower and inferior prices than it might and would and ought to have been sold , and the plaintiffs also negligently and improperly sold the said rice at prices much below the market ...
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... reason of perils of the sea , and were therefore so far interested as to be entitled to insure against such loss . It was INSURANCE CO . further contended on behalf of the plaintiff , that Chapple & Co. were insured against the loss ...
... reason of perils of the sea , and were therefore so far interested as to be entitled to insure against such loss . It was INSURANCE CO . further contended on behalf of the plaintiff , that Chapple & Co. were insured against the loss ...
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... reason why the Court should not make the order it did . It was not necessary , in such a case , to determine very accurately the meaning of the garnishee sections of the Common Law Procedure Act . It appears to me quite clear that such ...
... reason why the Court should not make the order it did . It was not necessary , in such a case , to determine very accurately the meaning of the garnishee sections of the Common Law Procedure Act . It appears to me quite clear that such ...
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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.