Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts, Volume 2Banks and Bros., 1876 - 1440 pages |
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Page 708
... particular passenger shall be arrested or not must be made without delay , it must be pre- sumed that the officers of the company charged with the management of traffic have authority to determine whether passengers are to be taken into ...
... particular passenger shall be arrested or not must be made without delay , it must be pre- sumed that the officers of the company charged with the management of traffic have authority to determine whether passengers are to be taken into ...
Page 711
... particular purposes , contain the usual protective clauses for the benefit of persons acting in the execution of the Act ; making the cause of action local , and requiring the action to be commenced within a certain ( k ) See Millor v ...
... particular purposes , contain the usual protective clauses for the benefit of persons acting in the execution of the Act ; making the cause of action local , and requiring the action to be commenced within a certain ( k ) See Millor v ...
Page 771
... particular reasons upon which they founded their award , it would introduce very great inconvenience , and be a discouragement to any person to undertake a reference . If there is any palpable mistake made by an arbitrator , or any ...
... particular reasons upon which they founded their award , it would introduce very great inconvenience , and be a discouragement to any person to undertake a reference . If there is any palpable mistake made by an arbitrator , or any ...
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... particular publication be libelous or contemptuous is a question for the court which commits . Any publication tending to influence the result of a pending suit , or to prejudice the minds of the public with regard to it , is a contempt ...
... particular publication be libelous or contemptuous is a question for the court which commits . Any publication tending to influence the result of a pending suit , or to prejudice the minds of the public with regard to it , is a contempt ...
Page 776
... particular act did amount to an insult , or interruption , or misbehavior , and that it is unnecessary for a judge to say more in the warrant of commitment than that he had been wilfully insulted ( g ) . 889 Statutory forms of ...
... particular act did amount to an insult , or interruption , or misbehavior , and that it is unnecessary for a judge to say more in the warrant of commitment than that he had been wilfully insulted ( g ) . 889 Statutory forms of ...
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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...