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Page 67
... cited ) . This is what I would wish to do , if we can do it . ' In 1757 Lord Mansfield was still new to the Bench . He spared judicial susceptibilities and deferred with becoming modesty to the opinion of his tutor , Mr. Justice Denison ...
... cited ) . This is what I would wish to do , if we can do it . ' In 1757 Lord Mansfield was still new to the Bench . He spared judicial susceptibilities and deferred with becoming modesty to the opinion of his tutor , Mr. Justice Denison ...
Page 130
... cited a number of cases , culminat- ing in Hayes v . Warren , 1 to show that this would not suffice to support an Assumpsit . Mr. Justice Wilmot admitted that ' the want of consideration had at first occurred to him ' , but , on ...
... cited a number of cases , culminat- ing in Hayes v . Warren , 1 to show that this would not suffice to support an Assumpsit . Mr. Justice Wilmot admitted that ' the want of consideration had at first occurred to him ' , but , on ...
Page 132
... cited the case of Sherrington v . Strotton , where , he said , Plowden ' lays down the dis- tinction between contracts or agreements in words ( which are more base ) and contracts or agreements in writing ( which are more high ) ...
... cited the case of Sherrington v . Strotton , where , he said , Plowden ' lays down the dis- tinction between contracts or agreements in words ( which are more base ) and contracts or agreements in writing ( which are more high ) ...
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