The Victorian Law Reports

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Published under the direction of the Council of Law Reporting by Charles F. Maxwell, 1916 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 105 - a banker who in good faith and without negligence receives payment for a customer of a cheque crossed generally or specially to himself, and to which the customer has no title, or a defective title. The cheques in respect of which this action is brought were
Page 376 - the Court deems it expedient or necessary to decide for the purpose of doing complete justice or making a complete distribution of property in any such case." That, by the second sub-section is restricted to claims arising in the insolvency, unless by consent or limited in value to
Page 561 - every contract hereafter entered into by a married woman otherwise than as agent —(a) shall be deemed to be a contract entered into by her with respect to and to bind her separate property whether she is or is not in fact possessed of or entitled to any separate property at the time when she enters into such contract; and
Page 189 - in trust for my child if only one or all my children if more than one who either before or after the decease or future marriage of my said wife shall being a son or sons attain the age of twenty-one years or being a daughter or daughters attain that age or be married and
Page 561 - A married woman shall be capable of entering into and rendering herself liable in respect of and to the extent of her separate property on any contract ... as if she were a feme sole.
Page 35 - to the contract either by the seller with the assent of the buyer or by the buyer with the assent of the seller the property in the goods thereupon passes to the buyer.
Page 347 - whatsoever whether of law or fact which may arise in any case of insolvency coming within the cognizance of the Court or which the Court deems it expedient or necessary to decide for the purpose of doing complete justice or making
Page 270 - 33 (1). Where an Act confers a power or imposes a duty then unless the contrary intention appears the power may be exercised and the duty shall be performed from time to time as occasion requires.
Page 141 - fide possession and enjoyment shall have been assumed by the donee immediately upon the gift, and thenceforward retained, to the entire exclusion of the donor or of any benefit to him by contract or otherwise. It
Page 353 - The implication which the law draws from what must obviously have been the intention of the parties, the law draws with the object of giving efficacy to the transaction and preventing such a failure of consideration as cannot have been in the contemplation of either side.

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