 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, William Pyle Taunton - 1815 - 734 pages
...receives it has a right to consider it as his without dispute: he spends it in confidence that it is his; and it would be most mischievous and unjust, if he...up the matter, and recover back the money. He who received it is not in the same condition: he has spent it in the confidence it was his, and perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...it, has a right to consider it as his without dispute : he spends it in confidence that it is his ; and it would be most mischievous and unjust if he...rip up the matter and recover back the money. He who received it, is not in the same condition: he has spent it in the confidence it was his, and perhaps... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 916 pages
...receives it has a right to consider it as his without dispute: he spends it in confidence that it is his ; and it would be most mischievous and unjust if he...to rip up the matter, and recover back the money." In Bize v. Dickeson (c), it was held, that, where a man has actually paid what the law would not have... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - Arbitration and award - 1842 - 1072 pages
...money, has a right to consider it his without dispute : he spends it in confidence that it is his ; and it would be most mischievous and unjust, if he who has acquiesced in the right of such voluntary payment, should be at liberty, at any time within the Statute of Limitations, to... | |
 | Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...defendant has an option either to litigate the question, or submit to the demand and pay the money. But it would be most mischievous and unjust, if he, who...limitations, to rip up the matter and recover back the money. This doctrine is peculiarly applicable to a case where the money has been paid over to the public treasury,... | |
 | Patrick Shaw - Contracts - 1847 - 358 pages
...who receives it has a right to consider it as his own ; he spends it in confidence that it is his ; and it would be most mischievous and unjust if he who has acquiesced in the right were allowed to rip up the matter, and demand back the money. The rest of the Court, on a careful review... | |
 | Harris PRENDERGAST - Military law - 1855 - 314 pages
...has a right to consider it as his own without dispute: he spends it in confidence that it is his : and it would be most mischievous and unjust, if he...up the matter and recover back the " money. He who received it is not in the same condition: " he has spent it in the confidence that it was his, and... | |
 | Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1855 - 884 pages
...it has a right to consider it as his without dispute ; he spends it iu confidence that it is his ; and it would be most mischievous and unjust if he...rip up the matter and recover back the money. He who received it is not in the same condition ; he has spent it in the confidence it was his, and perhaps... | |
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He who receives it has a right to consider it as his without dispute: he spends it in confidence that it is his; and it would be most mischievous and unjust, if he who has acquiesced in the right by such voluntary payment, should be at liberty, at any... 
