 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894
...for the affirmation ал true of a thing which one does not know to be true is, in law and morals, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively false. The allegations show that appellee was In a position to have superior Information as to the number... | |
 | Norman Fetter - Equity - 1895 - 463 pages
...recklessly makes a representation without knowing whether it be true or false, he is equally bound by it; for the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true is, equally, in morals and in law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively false.14 So, also, n... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach - Trusts and trustees - 1897
...it to be false, or made the assertion without any precise knowledge on the subject, is immaterial; for the affirmation of what one does not know, or...affirmation of what is known to be positively false.' * * * I think the conclusion may be deduced that although in an action on the case to recover for the... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900
...it to be true or false ; for the affirmation of what one does not know, is equally, in morals as in law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively false; and that, therefore, William R. Warren, acting as the agent of Milly Rice, represented the note of AW &... | |
 | George William Warvelle - Real property - 1902
...it to be false, or makes the assertion without any precise knowledge on the subject, is immaterial; the affirmation of what one does not know or believe to be true is equally "Ware v. Jones, 61 Ala. 288. Ind. 348; Mahurin v. Harding, 28 ss Myers v. Meinrath, 101 Mass. NH 128;... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904
...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 he true is equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Contracts - 1905 - 688 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 as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what he knows to be false.1 §244. Belief Baaed on Unreasonable... | |
 | M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - Law - 1905 - 600 pages
...; for the affirmation <f what one dor, riot know or believe to be true is iqually, in in >ra's an I law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be p isitively false. (Sec. 193.) It is immaterial whether the fraud was originally concocted by the principal... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906
...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.' " In Sears v. Stinson, 3 Wash. 615, 29 Pac. 205, the 4a8 grantor represented to the grantee that the... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906
...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." Grim v. Byrd, 32... | |
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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... 
