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Page 432 - ... seven years, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding two years...
Page 527 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 213 - Now, they are not goods, nor securities, nor documents for debts, nor are so esteemed ; but are treated as money, as cash, in the ordinary course and transaction of business, by the general consent of mankind, which gives them the credit and currency of money to all intents and purposes. They are as much money as guineas themselves are, or any other current coin that is used in common payments, as money or cash.
Page 80 - Cawog, and in that connection it has been stated, that there is not a contract to answer for the debt of another within the statute of frauds where the alleged guarantor promises the debtor, rather than the creditor to pay the former's debt.
Page 584 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any case where the party trespassing acted under a fair and reasonable supposition that he had a right to do the act complained of...
Page 610 - Term) moved accordingly, and also for a rule to shew cause why there should not be a new trial on the ground...
Page 284 - Middlesex, may be registered as therein directed, " and that every such deed or conveyance that shall at any time after the said 29th day of September be made and executed shall be adjudged fraudulent and void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration...
Page 432 - Court to sentence the offender to be imprisoned, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common Gaol, or House of Correction...
Page 168 - ... the proving or claiming a debt under a commission by any creditor shall be deemed an election by such creditor to take the benefit of such commission with respect to the debt so proved or claimed : provided that such creditor shall not be liable to the payment to such bankrupt or his assignees, of the costs of such action or suit so relinquished by him...
Page 154 - ... to be nothing wrong there, great latitude will be allowed for misapprehension or mistake. But, on the other hand, if the heart is wrong, — if cruelty, malice, and oppression...
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| Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's Bench & Common Pleas, and on the Circuit: from the Sittings in Michaelmas Term, 1823, to [Easter Term, 4 Vict. 1841] ... Volume 2 of Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's Bench & Common Pleas, and on the Circuit: from the Sittings in Michaelmas Term, 1823, to [Easter Term, 4 Vict. 1841], Great Britain. Central Criminal Court |
| Authors | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Joseph Payne |
| Contributors | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Great Britain. Central Criminal Court |
| Publisher | S. Sweet, 1827 |
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