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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... transactions which he could not lawfully enter into apart from its provisions . I am unable to take this view of the enactment . In my opinion , the object of the section is to prohibit , under a penalty of 501. , any councillor from ...
... transactions which he could not lawfully enter into apart from its provisions . I am unable to take this view of the enactment . In my opinion , the object of the section is to prohibit , under a penalty of 501. , any councillor from ...
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... transaction for vendor and purchaser , for mortgagor and mortgagee , for lessor and lessee ; and even for different parties or classes of parties in the same action . It is a practice which the Courts recognize as valid : See Doe d ...
... transaction for vendor and purchaser , for mortgagor and mortgagee , for lessor and lessee ; and even for different parties or classes of parties in the same action . It is a practice which the Courts recognize as valid : See Doe d ...
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... transaction based upon it . Therefore , also , if trustees depart from the strict letter of their trust on getting a covenant of indemnity - as is quite common - the covenant is valid and enforceable , as when trustees pay ( on the ...
... transaction based upon it . Therefore , also , if trustees depart from the strict letter of their trust on getting a covenant of indemnity - as is quite common - the covenant is valid and enforceable , as when trustees pay ( on the ...
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... transaction , there was no ille- gality in the contract , and it is the contract alone that we are asked to declare illegal . The case of Egerton v . Brownlow ( y ) , on which so much stress has been laid in this Court , was a case of a ...
... transaction , there was no ille- gality in the contract , and it is the contract alone that we are asked to declare illegal . The case of Egerton v . Brownlow ( y ) , on which so much stress has been laid in this Court , was a case of a ...
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... transaction , being entitled to share in the commission payable to the plaintiffs ; and that the services rendered by Mr. Deany were an effective cause of the sale . We think it unnecessary to determine whether Mr. Deany under- took to ...
... transaction , being entitled to share in the commission payable to the plaintiffs ; and that the services rendered by Mr. Deany were an effective cause of the sale . We think it unnecessary to determine whether Mr. Deany under- took to ...
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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.