Irish Law Reports: Particularly of Points of Practice, Argued and Determined in the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer in Ireland. third series of 'the law recorder', Volume 8

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Page 446 - Car. 2. c. 3. § 4., enacts, that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator, upon any special promise, to answer damages out of his own estate, or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 167 - Plaintiff, and Two responsible Persons as Sureties, a Bond in double the Value of the Goods distrained (such Value to be ascertained by the Oath of One or more credible...
Page 297 - if at any time after the expiration of twenty-one days next after the execution of such warrant of attorney, a commission of bankrupt shall be issued against the person who shall have given such warrant of attorney, under which he shall be duly found and declared a bankrupt, then and in such case, unless such warrant of attorney or a copy thereof, shall have been filed as aforesaid, within the...
Page 403 - ... action for the money remaining unpaid, and so acknowledged to be due, within twenty years after such acknowledgment, by writing or part payment or part satisfaction, as aforesaid...
Page 276 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Page 463 - That in all actions of trespass, to be commenced or prosecuted in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster, wherein at the trial of the cause it shall appear, and be certified by the Judge under his hand upon the back of the record, that the trespass, upon which any defendant shall be found guilty, was wilful and malicious, the plaintiff shall recover not only his damages, .but his full costs of suit ; any former law to the (a) Tidd's Pract.
Page 403 - ... shall have been paid, or some acknowledgment of the right thereto shall have been given in writing, signed by the person by whom the same shall be payable, or his agent, to the person entitled thereto, or his agent; and in such case, no such action or suit or proceeding shall be brought but within twenty years after such payment or acknowledgment, or the last of such payments or acknowledgments, if more than one, was given.
Page 487 - My Lords, in this case your Lordships have put the following question to her Majesty's Judges ; viz., " An information, in the nature of a quo warranto, having been granted for usurping the office of treasurer of the public money of the county of * the...
Page 402 - ... charged upon or payable out of any land or rent at law or in equity, or any legacy, but within twenty years next after a present right to receive the same, shall have accrued to some person capable of giving a discharge for or release of the same...
Page 444 - ... the question whether each particular case comes within this clause of the statute (sec. 4), or not, depends not on the consideration for the promise, but on the fact of the original party remaining liable, coupled with the absence of any liability on the part of the defendant or his property, except such as arises from his express promise.

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