 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 920 pages
...against WKLLS. (a) (,.-/. A- /•:. 469. H down. J839. GRKCO against WILLS: Thursday, May I'll. down. A party, who negligently or culpably stands by and...person whom he has himself assisted in deceiving. The defence here is, in substance, collusion between Durham and the plaintiff. As to the evidence,... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1842 - 822 pages
...plaintiff's property, cannot show the sale to have been fraudulent ; the fraud must be pleaded specially. A party who negligently or culpably stands by and...person whom he has himself assisted in deceiving; and this defence is admissible on the plea of not possessed as of his own property (w). The plea (x)... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1843 - 1068 pages
...с. Sanders, 6 A. & Б. 515, and Gregg o. Wells, 10 A. & E. 90, in which last case it was held that a party who negligently or culpably stands by and...person whom he has himself assisted in deceiving. CSG (A) Cooke v. Birt, 5 Taunt 765. (i) Johnson r. Leigh, 6 Taunt. 246, ante, p. 630. And also to arréete... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Parties to actions - 1847 - 232 pages
...vendee, whom he thas himself assisted in deceiving :(_yj nor can a party, who negligently or culpably allows another to contract on the faith and understanding of a fact, which he can contradict, afterwards dispute that fact in an action against the person so contracting. 'r) But as against a mere... | |
 | William Francis Finlason - Parties to actions - 1847 - 304 pages
...the principle would apply thus expressed in Wells v. Gregg, 10 A. & E., " That a party who (rightly or culpably) stands by and allows another to contract on the faith of a fact which he can contradict, cannot afterwards dispute that fact in an action against the person... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...at the same time (z). Indeed, the principle may be laid down still more broadly, as precluding any party, who negligently or culpably stands by and allows...and understanding of a fact which he can contradict, from disputing that fact in an action against the person whom he has himself assisted in deceiving... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 786 pages
...believe in a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief." Or in Gregg rs. Wells. "Who negligently or culpably stands by and allows...understanding of a fact which he can contradict." The gist of this is plaintly, deceit, fraud. It must be wilfully or negligently or culpably, and it... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1848 - 1076 pages
...former is concluded from averring that case may be stated even more broadly than it is there laid down. A party who negligently or culpably stands by and...another to contract on the faith and understanding of ¡i fact which he can contradict, cannot afterwards dispute that fact in an action against the person... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court - Civil procedure - 1850 - 808 pages
...stated more broadly by Lord Denman in the case of Gregg v. Wells (d), where his Lordship says, " that a party who negligently or culpably stands by and...person whom he has himself assisted in deceiving." Whether that rule has been correctly acted upon by the jury, in all the reported cases in which it... | |
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A party who negligently or culpably stands by and allows another to contract on the faith and understanding of a fact which he can contradict, cannot afterwards dispute that fact in an action against the person whom he has himself assisted in deceiving. 
