Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With Tables of the Names of the Cases and the Principal Matters, Volume 4

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J. Butterworth and Son, 1817

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Page 296 - Council shall decide whether the same be, or be not, connected with the civil or military government and revenues of the said territories and possessions in India ; which decision shall be final and conclusive.
Page 129 - Maranham, to be advanced by the plaintiff, his agents or assigns, to the defendant, when required, free from interest and commission, at the current exchange of the place, and the residue of such freight to be paid on the delivery of the cargo in Liverpool, in good and approved bills on London not exceeding three months date.
Page 225 - ... the heirs of their bodies ; and for default of such issue, to the use of the right heirs of the said...
Page 409 - To the end that offenders may be brought to justice, it is hereby directed, that whenever any officer or soldier shall commit a crime deserving punishment, he shall, by his commanding officer, if an officer, be put in arrest; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, be imprisoned till he shall be either tried by a court-martial, or shall be lawfully discharged by a proper authority.
Page 408 - All crimes not capital, and all disorders and neglects which officers and soldiers may be guilty of, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, though not mentioned in the foregoing articles of war, are to be taken cognizance of by a general or regimental court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offence, and be punished at their discretion.
Page 352 - ... speculative reasoning it might be shown that the application of such and such a rule would be productive of such and such an inconvenience, and therefore ought not to prevail. But if any general rule is to prevail, this is certainly one that is as fixed, formal, and universal, as any that can be stated in a court of justice, and there is nothing on which to supersede it in this case but a suggestion of some supposed inconvenience.
Page 258 - THIS was an action for goods sold, and upon the common money counts. At the trial before Lord Ellenborough, CJ, at the London sittings after last Trinity term, the following facts appeared. The defendant was a Spanish merchant, and a director of the Philippine trading company at Madrid, with which he was engaged in adventures to a large amount. In January, 1810, being then in London, he employed Messrs. Larrazabal and Co.
Page 387 - EF as aforesaid, before and at the said several times when, &c. necessarily had, and of right ought to have had, and still of right ought to have...
Page 203 - ... if the court should be of opinion that the plaintiffs are entitled to recover, then judgment, it is agreed, shall be entered for the plaintiffs, for twenty-five hundred dollars, and costs of suit.
Page 351 - The rule, therefore, is universal that you must first call the subscribing witness ; and it is not to be varied in each particular case by trying whether in its application it may not be productive of some inconvenience, for then there would be no such thing as a general rule. A lawyer who is well stored with these rules would be no better than any other man that is without them...

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