The Victorian Law ReportsPublished under the direction of the Council of Law Reporting by Charles F. Maxwell, 1923 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 21
... condition in a will being treated as against public policy and illegal . The condition itself was treated by the majority of the law Lords as tending directly to subvert the House of Peers in its judicial , legislative , and ...
... condition in a will being treated as against public policy and illegal . The condition itself was treated by the majority of the law Lords as tending directly to subvert the House of Peers in its judicial , legislative , and ...
Page 95
... condition precedent to a right . Sec . 179 was directed against legal owners being affected by notice , and is not apt to express an intention to give persons who have dealt by contract only positive rights which will defeat prior ...
... condition precedent to a right . Sec . 179 was directed against legal owners being affected by notice , and is not apt to express an intention to give persons who have dealt by contract only positive rights which will defeat prior ...
Page 150
... condition precedent to a person's being entitled to be enrolled is that he shall have paid his rates on or before the 10th day of June , and therefore , by entering those who had paid up to the 28th day of June , the clerk made up the ...
... condition precedent to a person's being entitled to be enrolled is that he shall have paid his rates on or before the 10th day of June , and therefore , by entering those who had paid up to the 28th day of June , the clerk made up the ...
Page 155
... condition - Sum_certain— “ With interest until arrival of payment in London to cover ” -Commonwealth Bills of Exchange Act 1909- 1912 , 88. 8 , 14 ( 1 ) . A document drawn in respect of goods sold and sued on as a bill of exchange had ...
... condition - Sum_certain— “ With interest until arrival of payment in London to cover ” -Commonwealth Bills of Exchange Act 1909- 1912 , 88. 8 , 14 ( 1 ) . A document drawn in respect of goods sold and sued on as a bill of exchange had ...
Page 159
... condition of the bill . Dixon , in reply , referred to Bently v . Jamieson ( i ) . Cur . adv . vult . SCHUTT , J. , read the following judgment : -Motion to set aside a writ of summons and the service thereof on the ground that the ...
... condition of the bill . Dixon , in reply , referred to Bently v . Jamieson ( i ) . Cur . adv . vult . SCHUTT , J. , read the following judgment : -Motion to set aside a writ of summons and the service thereof on the ground that the ...
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Page 323 - The court said there must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is .shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as, in the ordinary course of things, does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 255 - In all cases, therefore, where it is sought to apply the estoppel of a judgment rendered upon one cause of action to matters arising in a suit upon a different cause of action, the inquiry must always be as to the point or question actually litigated and determined in the original action, not what might have been thus litigated and determined. Only upon such matters is the judgment conclusive in another action.
Page 784 - A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person giving it, requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to or to the order of a specified person, or to bearer.
Page 246 - But where the second action between the same parties is upon a different claim or demand, the judgment in the prior action operates as an estoppel only as to those matters in issue or points controverted, upon the determination of which the finding or verdict was rendered.
Page 116 - To direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity ; or (c) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.
Page 75 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs...
Page 121 - An order of the Court under any statutory or other jurisdiction shall not, as against a purchaser, be invalidated on the ground of want of jurisdiction, or of want of any concurrence, consent, notice, or service, whether the purchaser has notice of any such want or not.
Page 467 - A conspiracy, it is said,f consists not merely in the intention of two or more, but in the agreement of two or more, to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.
Page 121 - Purchaser, unless a contrary intention appears, includes a lessee or mortgagee, and an intending purchaser, lessee, or mortgagee, or other person, who, for valuable consideration, takes or deals for any property...
Page 786 - Minneapolis, with interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum until paid.