 | Samuel Owen - Law - 1846 - 494 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party, for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature, to compromise or settle hie private damage ; but it ij not competent for him to undertake not to prosecute on behalf of the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1880 - 850 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature,...compromise or settle his private damage in any way he may fhink fit." Chit, on Con., 582 ; 6 Man. & Gr., 785 ; 21 Conn., 421. 2. If the evidence for the plaintiffs... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1853 - 488 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain au action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature,...but we are not disposed to extend this any further." And the current of more recent authorities on this side of the Atlantie, sets strongly against the... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - Criminal law - 1857 - 642 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature,...private damage in any way he may think fit. It is said, indecd, that in the case of an assault he may also undertake not to prosecute on behalf of the public.... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1861 - 840 pages
...aggrieved is also entitled to an action for damages, eg in the case of a nuisance or assault, he may compromise or settle his private damage in any way he may think fit(g). So where, a petition having been presented to the House of Commons against the return of a... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 584 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature, to compromise or settle bis private damage in any way he may think fit." That, it is submitted, is a decisive authority in... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves - Criminal law - 1877 - 898 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party, for which he may maintain an action, (e) it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature,...but we are not disposed to extend this any further." It is clear that the consent of the Court cannot make an agreement to abandon a prosecution valid,... | |
 | John William Smith - Conflict of laws - 1878 - 596 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him. notwithstanding they are also of a public nature,...may also undertake not to prosecute on behalf of the publie. It may be so. but we are not disposed to extend this any further." And the current of more... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1878 - 738 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party, for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature,...settle his private damage in any way he may think fit." But even if this is a case of compounding a felony, the money having been actually repaid to the appellant... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1880 - 846 pages
...which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature,...settle his private damage in any way he may think fit." Chit, on Con., 582 ; 6Man. & Gr., 785 ; 21 Conn., 421. 2. If the evidence for the plaintiffs below... | |
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We have no doubt that, in all offences which involve damages to an injured party for which he may maintain an action, it is competent for him, notwithstanding they are also of a public nature, to compromise or settle his private damage in any way he may... 
