Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: During the Time Lord Mansfield Presided in that Court; from Michaelmas Term, 30 Geo. II. 1756, to Easter Term, 12 Geo. III. 1772, Volume 5

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Page 2677 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand, sue for...
Page 2803 - The counsel for the defendant moved for a rule to shew cause, why there should not be a new trial, and...
Page 9 - The fourth section of the statute of frauds (a) enacts, that no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriages, of another person...
Page 2705 - Rhodes, for and during the term of her natural life, and from and after her decease, to the...
Page ix - In one word, the gist of this kind of action is, that the defendant, upon the circumstances of the case, is obliged by the ties of natural justice and equity to refund the money'.
Page 2744 - ... that no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise or occupy as a physician or surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the bishop of London, or by the dean of St. Paul's for the time being, calling to him or them, four doctors of physic, and for surgery, other expert persons in that faculty...
Page 2681 - not guilty :" and the plaintiffs obtained a verdict. The defendant's counsel (Mr. Serjeant Davy, Mr. Serjeant Burland, and Mr. Hotchkins,) moved for a new trial; objecting that the action ought to have been brought in the name of the...
Page xix - ... of the same December, came into the hands and possession of the plaintiff, for a full and valuable consideration, and in the usual course and way of his business, and without any notice or knowledge of this bank-note being taken out of the mail.

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