The Victorian Law ReportsPublished under the direction of the Council of Law Reporting by Charles F. Maxwell, 1905 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 183 - Person shall wilfully or maliciously commit any Damage, Injury, or Spoil to or upon any Real or Personal Property whatsoever, either of a public or private Nature, for which no Remedy or Punishment is hereinbefore provided...
Page 631 - As a general rule, in order to found a suit in England for a wrong alleged to have been committed abroad, two conditions must be fulfilled. First, the wrong must be of such a character that it would have been actionable if committed in England...
Page 211 - that the debtor has in England or elsewhere made a conveyance or assignment of his property to a trustee for the benefit of his creditors generally...
Page 614 - ... necessary to the construction of the contract itself. And as in the case of a collision on an ordinary road in a foreign country, where the rule of the road in force at the place of collision may be a necessary ingredient in the determination of the question by whose fault or negligence the alleged tort was committed.
Page 20 - ... and if of opinion that it has had or may have such effect the court shall make such alterations as in its opinion may be necessary to remove or prevent such effect and at the same time to secure a living wage to the employees in such trade...
Page 468 - Court; (ii) defining the extent to which the jurisdiction of any Federal court shall be exclusive of that which belongs to or is invested in the courts of the States; (iii) investing any court of a State with Federal jurisdiction.
Page 346 - If parties, for valuable consideration, with their eyes open, contract that a particular thing shall not be done, all that a Court of Equity has to do is to say, by way of injunction, that which the parties have already said by way of covenant, that the thing shall not be done ; and in such case the injunction does nothing more than give the sanction of the process of the Court to that which already is the contract between the parties.
Page 4 - Now this indenture witnesseth, that in pursuance of the said agreement, and in consideration of the said sum of...
Page 751 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 125 - It is a convenient rule that where there are recurring occasions for the exercise of active duties by the trustees, and no repeated devises to them to enable them to perform their duties, the legal estate, if once in the trustees is to be deemed to be vested in them throughout, notwithstanding the duration in the meantime of what would, but for the recurring duties, be construed as uses executed in the beneficiaries.