| 1873 - 962 pages
...the leading authority, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on the belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against... | |
| 1866 - 932 pages
...established in Pirkftrd v. Sears (8), that if a man, by his words or acts, causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act in that belief, so as to alter his own previous condition, the former is estopped from denying the... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis - 1838 - 1096 pages
...divested by gift or sale ; of which no specific act was even surmised. But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes...existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to net on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1839 - 728 pages
...divested by gift or sale, of which no specific act was even surmised. But the rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully...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... | |
| Ireland. Court of King's Bench - 1850 - 646 pages
...(h) ; Cruchley v. Clarence (f) ; Stone v. Marsh (k). In Pichard v. Sears (/) Lord Denman says : — " "Where one by his " words or conduct wilfully causes...induces him to act on that belief so " as to alter his own position, the former is concluded from averring " against the latter a different state of things... | |
| Joseph Story - 1839 - 658 pages
...this occasion Lord Dcuman, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said ; " The rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief •o as to alter... | |
| Graham Willmore, Frederick Luard Wollaston, Henry Davison - 1839 - 810 pages
...surmised. But the rule oi is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another : believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to ar: that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is conclndf. from averring against... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1840 - 796 pages
...the jury was in substance quite in accordance with the principle laid down in Pickard v. Sears (c), that, " where one by his words or conduct wilfully...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... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Erskine Perry, Sir Henry Davison - 1840 - 796 pages
...the jury was in substance quite in accordance with the principle laid down in Pickard v. Sears (c), that, " where one by his words or conduct wilfully...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... | |
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