The Practice in Courts of Justice in England and the United States, Volume 2A. Morris, 1855 |
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... payable by instalments ; part of the stipula- tions may be dependent and part otherwise , 8. How the rule as to condition precedent has been applied in contracts for the sale of land , - 9. Clear that as to same subject some ...
... payable by instalments ; part of the stipula- tions may be dependent and part otherwise , 8. How the rule as to condition precedent has been applied in contracts for the sale of land , - 9. Clear that as to same subject some ...
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... payable at all events , 2. There must be a drawee , 3. Whether drawer's not receiving value will affect payee , 4. Nature of drawer's contract , CHAP . 17. - By whom , to whom , and when bill should be presented for acceptance ; if ...
... payable at all events , 2. There must be a drawee , 3. Whether drawer's not receiving value will affect payee , 4. Nature of drawer's contract , CHAP . 17. - By whom , to whom , and when bill should be presented for acceptance ; if ...
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... payable to another's order , cannot deny his authority to endorse , 159 4. Difference between handwriting of drawer and payee . If payee's name be forged , acceptor generally either not liable to pay endorsee , or if he has paid ...
... payable to another's order , cannot deny his authority to endorse , 159 4. Difference between handwriting of drawer and payee . If payee's name be forged , acceptor generally either not liable to pay endorsee , or if he has paid ...
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... payable to the state for the benefit of private persons , it is considered in North Carolina there is no presumption of acceptance of the bond by the sovereign unless there be an actual delivery in the case , and to the person autho ...
... payable to the state for the benefit of private persons , it is considered in North Carolina there is no presumption of acceptance of the bond by the sovereign unless there be an actual delivery in the case , and to the person autho ...
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... payable under such agreement , 3 El . & Black . 650 ; 77 Eng . Com . Law Rep . 650 ; or to indemnify against a note that is void , Collins v . Blantern , 2 Wils . 349 ; or upon any contract for a matter or thing prohibited by sta- tute ...
... payable under such agreement , 3 El . & Black . 650 ; 77 Eng . Com . Law Rep . 650 ; or to indemnify against a note that is void , Collins v . Blantern , 2 Wils . 349 ; or upon any contract for a matter or thing prohibited by sta- tute ...
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Page 413 - By the seventeenth section, it is enacted that " no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of £,10 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 60 - If a day be appointed for payment of money, or part of it, or for doing any other act, and the day is to happen, or may happen, before the thing which is the consideration of the money, or other act, is to be performed ; an action may be brought for the money, or for not doing such other act before performance, for it appears that the party relied upon his remedy, and did not intend to make the performance a condition precedent. And so it is where no time is fixed for performance of that, which is...
Page 663 - When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence.
Page 319 - All contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming, or wagering, shall be null and void ; and no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity, for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person, to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 363 - ... for the use and occupation of what was so held or enjoyed; and if in evidence on the trial of such action any...
Page 50 - But when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 494 - If goods are sold upon credit, and nothing is agreed upon as to the time of delivering the goods, the vendee is immediately entitled to the possession, and the right of possession and the right of property vests at once in him...
Page 694 - Salk. 282, as a general position," that no master is chargeable with the acts of his servant but when he acts in the execution of the authority given him." Now when a servant quits sight of the object for which he is employed, and without having in view his master's orders pursues that which his own malice suggests, he no longer acts in pursuance of the authority given him, and according to the doctrine of Lord Holt his master will not be answerable for such act.
Page 672 - ... it is a right only to the flow of the water, and the enjoyment of it, subject to the similar rights of all the proprietors of the banks on each side to the reasonable enjoyment of the same gift of Providence. It is only therefore for an unreasonable and unauthorised use of this common benefit that an action will lie...
Page 505 - product of or substitute for the original thing still follows the " nature of the thing itself as long as it can be ascertained to