The State Reports, New South Wales, Volume 5

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Law Book Company of Australasia, 1905 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 305 - It is a well-established rule of law, that where a contract, not under seal, is made with an agent in his own name, for an undisclosed principal, either the agent or the principal may sue upon it...
Page 31 - No order, judgment or decree providing for an accounting, or enjoining, restraining or interfering with the prosecution of the business of any domestic insurance corporation, or appointing a temporary or permanent receiver thereof, shall be made or granted otherwise than upon the application of the attorney-general on his own motion, or after his approval of a request in writing therefor of the superintendent of insurance, except in an action by a judgment creditor, or In proceedings supplementary...
Page 637 - ... or for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received (<) by or on behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper, or person as aforesaid as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race...
Page 311 - ... the defendants were not bound by their offer when accepted by the plaintiffs till the answer was received, then the plaintiffs ought not to be bound till after they had received the notification that the defendants had received their answer and assented to it; and so it might go on ad infinitum.
Page 471 - That all conditions were fulfilled, and all things happened and all times elapsed necessary to entitle the plaintiff to have the said...
Page 317 - ... conviction, without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed the same.
Page 552 - An adequate amount of ventilation shall be constantly produced in every mine to dilute and render harmless noxious gases to such an extent that the working places of the shafts, levels, stables, and workings of the mine, and the travelling roads to and from those working places shall be in a fit state for working and passing therein.
Page 215 - In an action by the plaintiff for malicious prosecution, held, that evidence that the libel was true, and that it was for the public benefit that it should be published...
Page 286 - Act, no creditor to whom the debtor is indebted in respect of any debt provable in bankruptcy shall have any remedy against the property or person of the debtor in respect of the debt, or shall commence any action or other legal proceedings unless with the leave of the Court and on such terms as the Court may impose.
Page 539 - The Court of Appeal shall have power to draw inferences of fact and to give any judgment and make any order which ought to have been made, and to make such further or other order as the case may require.

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