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... maintained by Pothier . I pass , there- fore , to the next question , viz . , whether posting the letter of revocation was a sufficient communication of it to the plaintiff . The offer was posted on the 1st of October , the withdrawal ...
... maintained by Pothier . I pass , there- fore , to the next question , viz . , whether posting the letter of revocation was a sufficient communication of it to the plaintiff . The offer was posted on the 1st of October , the withdrawal ...
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... the person making the offer ; and the correct- ness of that decision is maintained , upon an able and elaborate discussion of reasons and authorities , in Langdell In England , New York , on Contracts ( 2d 40 CASES FOR ANALYSIS .
... the person making the offer ; and the correct- ness of that decision is maintained , upon an able and elaborate discussion of reasons and authorities , in Langdell In England , New York , on Contracts ( 2d 40 CASES FOR ANALYSIS .
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... maintained the action , on the consideration of natural love and affection ? Suppose a parol promise by a father to his son , before witnesses , to give him a sum of money , can assumpsit be supported on such a promise ? ( Rann v ...
... maintained the action , on the consideration of natural love and affection ? Suppose a parol promise by a father to his son , before witnesses , to give him a sum of money , can assumpsit be supported on such a promise ? ( Rann v ...
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... maintaining a becoming rank in life , to rescue him from the horrors of debt incurred by misfortune ? Yet the law will uphold him in any degree of parsimony short of that which would reduce his son to the necessity of seeking public ...
... maintaining a becoming rank in life , to rescue him from the horrors of debt incurred by misfortune ? Yet the law will uphold him in any degree of parsimony short of that which would reduce his son to the necessity of seeking public ...
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... maintained . 8 N. H. 154 ; 52 Eng . Com . Law R. 563 ; Smith on Contracts , 86 , 87 ; 6 Monroe , 660 ; 11 S. & Marsh , 431 ; 3 Adol . & Ellis , N. s . 234 ; 1 Story on Contracts , § 436 ; 5 Barb . 550 ; 19 Pick . 387 to 429 ; 8 Blackf ...
... maintained . 8 N. H. 154 ; 52 Eng . Com . Law R. 563 ; Smith on Contracts , 86 , 87 ; 6 Monroe , 660 ; 11 S. & Marsh , 431 ; 3 Adol . & Ellis , N. s . 234 ; 1 Story on Contracts , § 436 ; 5 Barb . 550 ; 19 Pick . 387 to 429 ; 8 Blackf ...
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Page 540 - A mandamus or an injunction may be granted or a receiver appointed by an interlocutory Order of the Court in all cases in which it shall appear to the Court to be just or convenient that such Order should be made...
Page 290 - In all criminal prosecutions for libel the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted.
Page 386 - ... likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff's default; or, perhaps, that the escape was the consequence of vis major, or the act of God; but, as nothing of this sort exists here, it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient.
Page 7 - The defendants must be considered in law as making, during every instant of the time their letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiffs; and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter.
Page 450 - ... yet the defendant, well knowing the premises, but contriving, and wrongfully and unjustly intending to injure the plaintiff, and to deprive him of the...
Page 385 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 386 - ... which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour's, should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property. But for his act in bringing it there no mischief could have accrued, and it seems but just that he should at his peril keep it there so that no mischief may accrue, or answer for the natural and anticipated consequences. And upon authority, this we think is established to be the law whether the things so brought be beasts,...
Page 385 - ... for the purpose of introducing water either above or below ground in quantities and in a manner not the result of any work or operation on or under the land, — and if in consequence of their doing so, or in consequence of any imperfection in the mode of their doing so, the water came to escape and to pass off into the close of the plaintiff, then it appears to me that that which the defendants were doing they were doing at their own peril...
Page 386 - If a person brings or accumulates on his land anything which, if it should escape, may cause damage to his neighbour, he does so at his peril If it does escape, and cause damage, he is responsible, however careful he may have been, and whatever precautions he may have taken to prevent the damage.
Page 172 - The rights of the parties are to be determined by the law of Illinois, but there is no evidence that the common law of Illinois differs from that of Massachusetts.