Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas and in the Exchequer Chamber: From 1856 ... [to 1865], Volume 4

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T. & J.W. Johnson & Company, 1860

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Page 327 - ... 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 327 - In respect of such breach of contract should be 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 as 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 621 - Perth, whereof is master for this present voyage John Amess, and now lying in the harbour of Pancakie, bound for Liverpool, *to r*«94 say, cargo of oak-bark, being marked and numbered as in the *• margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 297 - Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 585 - The jury answered the first question in the affirmative and the second in the negative ; and to the third question they answered — " It was their duty to require from the wagon company some distinct assurance that it had been thoroughly examined and repaired.
Page 97 - April, 1832, by a certain indenture then made between the plaintiff of the one part, and the defendant of the other part...
Page 413 - On the other hand, if at the time of the sale the seller knows, not only that the person who is nominally dealing with him is not principal but agent, and also knows who the principal really is, and, notwithstanding all that knowledge, chooses to make the agent his debtor, dealing with him and him alone, then, according to the cases of Addison v.
Page 813 - To the use of my said nephew Sotherton Branthwayt Micklethwait, and his assigns, for and during the term of his natural life (without impeachment of waste...
Page 817 - Hawkhurst aforesaid), are to go and pass to the use of my great-nephew John Nathaniel Micklethwait, second son of my said nephew Nathaniel Micklethwait, and his assigns, for and during the term of his natural life (without impeachment of waste...
Page 793 - Hawkins successively in tail male, with remainder to the use of his first and other sons successively...

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