 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 1036 pages
...be false or made the assertion without knowing whether it was true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true is equally, in morals and in law, unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively false. And even if the party... | |
 | Jairus Ware Perry - Trusts and trustees - 1882 - 744 pages
...be false or made the assertion without knowing whether it was true or false is wholly immaterial ; 4 for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...the affirmation of what is known to be positively false.5 And even if a party innocently misrepresent a fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive ; for... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 994 pages
...knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly iminaierial, for the aHiriuation. of what one does nut know or 'believe to be true is equally, in morals...the party innocently misrepresents a material fact, it is equally conclusive, for it operates as a surprise and imposition upon the other parly." 1 Story,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 680 pages
...false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial ; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...affirmation of what is known to be positively false. ' — Ibid. p. 195. • ь ' The general theory of the law, in regard to acts done and contracts made... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 682 pages
...false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial ; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...affirmation of what is known to be positively false.'— Ibid. p. 195. ' • The general theory of the law, in regard to acts done and contracts made by parties,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1156 pages
...be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...and law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what isknown to be positively false. " IStory.Eq. Jur. §193, and note. See, also, Page v. Bent, 2 Mete.... | |
 | Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 914 pages
...be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe...unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be false. And even if the party innocently misrepresents a material fact by mistake it is equally conclusive,... | |
 | John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 858 pages
...ivas true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believes to be true, is equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable...what is known to be positively false. And even if a party innocently misrepresents a material fact by mistake, it is equally conclusive, for it operates... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 884 pages
...without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for, it has been justly said, tho affirmation of what one does not know or believe to...affirmation of what is known to be positively false: 1 Story's Eq. Jur., sec. 193; Ainslie v. Medlycott, 9 Ves. 21. The present, therefore, seems to have... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1886 - 838 pages
...exception of the EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE. [CHAP. vi. whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial ; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true is one case of buying into a company (supra, Houldsworth ». Glasgow Bank), the prevailing rule in England... | |
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Whether the party thus misrepresenting a fact knew it to be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and... 
