Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Volume 9

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Page 169 - Now, in order to justify a condemnation for breach of blockade, three things must be proved : 1st, the existence of an actual blockade ; 2ndly, the knowledge of the party ; Srdly, some act of violation, either by going in or coming out with a cargo laden after the commencement of the blockade, The " Betsey
Page 52 - A rule was obtained, calling on the defendant to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a...
Page 44 - ... the expiration or determination of the term which shall first expire or be determined of such several patents or like privileges ; provided always that no letters patent for or in respect of any invention for which any such patent or like privilege as aforesaid shall have been obtained in any foreign country, and which shall be granted in the said United Kingdom after the expiration of the term for which such patent or privilege was granted or was in force, shall be of any validity.
Page 98 - ... by the Government. Any such decision or any modification therein or cancellation thereof shall be binding on the panchayat and each of the other local authorities concerned and shall not be liable to be questioned in any Court of .law.
Page 386 - ... having invented or used the same, or some part thereof, before the date of such letters patent, or if such patentee or his assigns shall discover that some other person had, unknown to such patentee, invented or used the same...
Page 158 - ... the law of nations allows, according to the different degrees of misbehaviour or suspicion, arising from the fault of the ship taken, and other circumstances of the case, costs to be paid, or not be received by the claimant, in case of acquittal and restitution.
Page 65 - Person, accepting of any such Bill for his Debt, doth not take his due course to obtain Payment thereof, by endeavouring to get the same accepted and paid, and make his Protest, as aforesaid, either for Non-acceptance, or Non-payment thereof.
Page 33 - If a person purchases an estate which he knows to be in the occupation of another than the vendor, he is bound by all the equities which the party in such occupation may have in the land ; and, referring to the authorities which I have mentioned, he adds, for possession is prima facie evidence of a seisin in fee.
Page 32 - With respect to the effect of possession merely, we take the law to be that if there be a tenant in possession of land, a purchaser is bound by all the equities which the tenant could enforce against the vendor, and that the equity of the tenant extends not only to interests connected with tenancy, as in Taylor v.
Page 96 - That all Appeals or Complaints in the Nature of Appeals whatever, which, either by virtue of this Act, or of any Law, Statute, or Custom, may be brought before His Majesty or His Majesty in Council...

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