Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts, Volume 2Banks and Bros., 1876 - 1440 pages |
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Page 693
... committed the alleged assault in his own defence ( v ) . If one man strikes another , and the person struck , in the heat of anger , and on the impulse of the moment , returns the blow with a stick or bludgeon , the battery is excusable ...
... committed the alleged assault in his own defence ( v ) . If one man strikes another , and the person struck , in the heat of anger , and on the impulse of the moment , returns the blow with a stick or bludgeon , the battery is excusable ...
Page 698
... committed a misdemeanor ( ) ; but if he has reasonable cause to suspect that a person has committed a felony , he may detain such person , not being an infant under the age of seven years , incapable of committing a felony ( c ) , until ...
... committed a misdemeanor ( ) ; but if he has reasonable cause to suspect that a person has committed a felony , he may detain such person , not being an infant under the age of seven years , incapable of committing a felony ( c ) , until ...
Page 699
... committed ( ƒ ) ; for if one man charges another with felony , and requires an officer to take him into custody ... commit or discharge " ( g ) . If an arrest by a constable is in its in- ception wrongful , all other constables who aid ...
... committed ( ƒ ) ; for if one man charges another with felony , and requires an officer to take him into custody ... commit or discharge " ( g ) . If an arrest by a constable is in its in- ception wrongful , all other constables who aid ...
Page 700
... committed by some person or another , and that the circumstances were such that any reasonable person acting without passion or prejudice would have fairly suspected that the plaintiff committed it , or was implicated in it ...
... committed by some person or another , and that the circumstances were such that any reasonable person acting without passion or prejudice would have fairly suspected that the plaintiff committed it , or was implicated in it ...
Page 702
... committed ( t ) , that the plaintiff was found and taken in the act ( u ) , and that the person arresting was either . the occu- pier or the landlord of the property injured . It must also be shown that the trespass was a wilful and ...
... committed ( t ) , that the plaintiff was found and taken in the act ( u ) , and that the person arresting was either . the occu- pier or the landlord of the property injured . It must also be shown that the trespass was a wilful and ...
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Popular passages
Page 1112 - ... whensoever 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...
Page 900 - Act ; and the company shall make to the owners and occupiers of and all other parties interested in any lands taken or used for the purposes of the railway, or injuriously affected by the construction thereof, full compensation for the value of the lands so taken or used, and for all damage sustained by such owners...
Page 930 - Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person; but, in its legal sense, it means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse.
Page 1178 - ... party, upon that belief, enters into the contract with him, the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party's...
Page 1122 - That an act done for another, by a person, not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well established rule of law.
Page 945 - The proper meaning of a privileged communication is only this: that the occasion on which the communication was made rebuts the inference [of malice] prima facie arising from a statement prejudicial to the character of the plaintiff, and puts it upon him to prove that there was malice in fact —that the defendant was actuated by motives of personal spite or ill-will, independent of the occasion on which the communication was made 1
Page 1012 - ... not specifying the same shall be deemed fraudulent on the part of the promoters, directors, and officers of the company knowingly issuing the same, as regards any person taking shares in the company on the faith of such prospectus, unless he shall have had notice of such contract.
Page 903 - ... unexpired term or interest in such lands, and for any just allowance which ought to be made to him by an incoming tenant, and for any loss or injury he may sustain, or if a part only of such lands...
Page 1071 - The court, after a final decree of nullity of marriage or dissolution of marriage may inquire into the existence of ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlements made on the parties whose marriage is the subject of the decree, and may make such orders with reference to the application of the whole or a portion of the property settled either for the benefit of the children of the marriage or of their respective parents as to the court shall seem fit.
Page 837 - That in all cases where an information shall be laid before one or more of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace...