A Treatise on the Measure of Damages: Or, An Inquiry Into the Principles which Govern the Amount of Compensation Recovered in Suits at Law ...J. S. Voorhies, 1852 - 650 pages |
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... jury may give exemplary Damages— Mitigation Suits against Collectors of Customs - Suits against Sureties of Public ... jury over the subject of damages - General division of their functions - The Roman system in this respect - Curious ...
... jury may give exemplary Damages— Mitigation Suits against Collectors of Customs - Suits against Sureties of Public ... jury over the subject of damages - General division of their functions - The Roman system in this respect - Curious ...
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... jury . But it is not within the scope of our present subject , to trace the gradual formation of this institution . Suffice it to say , that trial by jury , originally a trial by witnesses , the jury being themselves the witnesses ...
... jury . But it is not within the scope of our present subject , to trace the gradual formation of this institution . Suffice it to say , that trial by jury , originally a trial by witnesses , the jury being themselves the witnesses ...
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... jury had become the tribunal which disposed of the question of fact , and the amount of damages became a principal part of their jurisdiction . All hope of discovering how early this period was , is now , perhaps , lost , with the date ...
... jury had become the tribunal which disposed of the question of fact , and the amount of damages became a principal part of their jurisdiction . All hope of discovering how early this period was , is now , perhaps , lost , with the date ...
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... jury . But we are not to suppose that the limits of their power over the amount of remuneration were at first as clearly defined as they have since become . In one case , as late as the reign of James I . , * it is said that " the jury ...
... jury . But we are not to suppose that the limits of their power over the amount of remuneration were at first as clearly defined as they have since become . In one case , as late as the reign of James I . , * it is said that " the jury ...
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... jury have a discretion to award exemplary or vindictive damages ; in all other cases the declared object is to give ... jury . § Smith vs. Sherwood , 2 Texas R. , 460 . either judge or jury . By the general system of 28 GENERAL VIEW OF ...
... jury have a discretion to award exemplary or vindictive damages ; in all other cases the declared object is to give ... jury . § Smith vs. Sherwood , 2 Texas R. , 460 . either judge or jury . By the general system of 28 GENERAL VIEW OF ...
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Page 374 - ... certain time or otherwise, the jury on the trial of any issue, or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, allow interest to the creditor at a rate not exceeding the current rate of interest from the time when such debts or sums certain were payable, if such debts or sums be payable by virtue of some written instrument at a certain time...
Page 67 - ... 1. When the debtor has been guilty of no fraud or bad faith, he is liable only for such damages as were contemplated, or may reasonably be supposed to have entered into the contemplation of the parties at the time of the contract.
Page 23 - For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
Page 279 - Court erred in charging that the measure of damages was the difference between the contract price and the market price at...
Page 81 - But the question remains, can the plaintiff then, consistently with the authorities, maintain his action, having been at least equally in fault. The answer is that, supposing that fact ascertained by the jury, but to this extent, that he merely indulged the natural instinct of a child in amusing himself with the empty cart and deserted horse, then we think that the defendant cannot be permitted to avail himself of that fact. The most blamable carelessness of his servant having tempted the child,...
Page 566 - If any party shall be entitled to any compensation in respect of any lands, or of any interest therein, which shall have been taken for or injuriously affected by the execution of the works...
Page 91 - We therefore think that as there is fraud, and damage the result of that fraud, not from an act remote and consequential, but one contemplated by the defendant at the time as one of its results, the party guilty of the fraud is responsible to the party injured.
Page 415 - There is one case in which the sum agreed for must always be considered as a penalty, and that is, where the payment of a smaller sum is secured by a larger.
Page 47 - So if a man gives another a cuff on the ear, though it cost him nothing, no not so much as a little diachylon, yet he shall have his action, for it is a personal injury. So a man shall have an action against another for riding over his ground, though it do him no damage; for it is an invasion of his property, and the other has no right to come there.
Page 261 - A for not accepting the wheat, that the proper measure of damages was the difference' between the contract price and the market price on the day when the wheat...