Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme court of New Brunswick [1848-66], Volume 5 |
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Page 51
... allowed to have been alienated from his disposal , by the will . Such being the peculiari- ties of the case ; without disturbing those general principles , which it is most important to maintain ; it appears to us to 1861 . BOTSFORD ...
... allowed to have been alienated from his disposal , by the will . Such being the peculiari- ties of the case ; without disturbing those general principles , which it is most important to maintain ; it appears to us to 1861 . BOTSFORD ...
Page 62
... allowed by the Statute of Limitations . By the Act 26 Geo . III , c . 3 , § 12 , deeds and conveyances , duly acknowledged and registered , are declared to pass the lands and estate , and the possession therein granted or intended to be ...
... allowed by the Statute of Limitations . By the Act 26 Geo . III , c . 3 , § 12 , deeds and conveyances , duly acknowledged and registered , are declared to pass the lands and estate , and the possession therein granted or intended to be ...
Page 97
... allowed to shew that he was not bound to make the arrest . It should have been averred that the defendant knew there were no goods and chattels . He could not have taken Anderson until he searched for goods and chattels , without ...
... allowed to shew that he was not bound to make the arrest . It should have been averred that the defendant knew there were no goods and chattels . He could not have taken Anderson until he searched for goods and chattels , without ...
Page 104
... allowed by one of the defendants , where the two had appeared by separate attornies , and severed in pleading . But when two defendants sued jointly , join in the plea , and raise a joint issue , they put themselves on the same terms ...
... allowed by one of the defendants , where the two had appeared by separate attornies , and severed in pleading . But when two defendants sued jointly , join in the plea , and raise a joint issue , they put themselves on the same terms ...
Page 106
... allowed to go home ; that the Deputy , with the con- sent of the plaintiff's attorney , allowed the defendant to go home ; but as he did not pay the amount , he arrested him on the ca. sa . on the 15th December . D. S. Kerr , in support ...
... allowed to go home ; that the Deputy , with the con- sent of the plaintiff's attorney , allowed the defendant to go home ; but as he did not pay the amount , he arrested him on the ca. sa . on the 15th December . D. S. Kerr , in support ...
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Page 140 - The rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 36 - A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his rights, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence.
Page 618 - If it were once understood, that upon mutual disgust married persons might be legally separated, many couples, who now pass through the world with mutual comfort, with attention to their common offspring and to the moral order of civil society, might have been at this moment living in a state of mutual unkindness, in a state of estrangement from their common offspring, and in a state of the most licentious and unreserved immorality. In this case, as in many others, the happiness of some individuals...
Page 140 - ... if whatever a man's real intention may be he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally precluded from contesting its truth...
Page 342 - Counsel moved for a nonsuit, on the ground that the plaintiff had not pleaded in bar to, or denied the avowries of the defendants.
Page 612 - After the best consideration that I have been able to give to the subject, I...
Page 417 - Michaelmas term last, obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. He...
Page 50 - If there is any misrepresentation, or any concealment of a material fact, or any just suspicion of artifice or undue influence, courts of equity will interpose and pronounce the transaction void, and as far as possible restore the parties to their original rights.
Page 114 - But nothing herein contained shall render any person who in any criminal proceeding is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any offence punishable on summary conviction, competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person compellable to answer any question tending to criminate himself or herself...
Page 79 - I think, therefore, that the rule should be discharged, but as the majority of the Court are of a different opinion, it must be made absolute. The judgment of Quain, J., and Archi" 1, J., was delivered by — ARCHIBALD, J.