Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: By the Right Hon. Sylvester Douglas, Part 115, Volume 3

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Page 16 - interest or no interest," or "without further proof of interest than the policy itself," or "without benefit of salvage to the insurer...
Page 348 - Court of King's Bench, 1786. 1 Term Rep. 159. Ejectment tried at the last assizes at Salisbury, before Hotham, Baron, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the Court...
Page 80 - The question for the opinion of the court was, whether the plaintiffs were entitled to recover back the money so paid to the defendants.
Page 24 - Pigott, for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new...
Page 412 - I take it to be a general rule, that if a person sells goods ( supposing at the time of the contract he is dealing with a principal), but afterwards discovers that the person with whom he has been dealing is not the principal in the transaction, but agent for a third person, though he may, in the meantime, have debited the agent with it, he may afterwards recover the amount from the real principal, subject, however, to this qualification, that the state of the account between the principal and the...
Page 191 - A new trial was moved for on the ground that the evidence was not legally admissible, and the rule was made absolute.
Page 424 - But the necessity which calls for this exception for the wife's security is described to mean, " not a general necessity, as where no other witness can be had, but a particular necessity, as where, for instance, the wife would otherwise be exposed, without remedy, to personal injury.
Page 295 - Lane and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten or to be begotten ; and, for default of such issue, to...
Page 308 - The action in this case was for a refusal to accept, and the judge directed a verdict for the plaintiff. A new trial was moved for on the ground that there was no evidence of acceptance, and the Court refused it, saying that the evidence was ample. If requested at the trial, the judge would no doubt have left the case to the jury.
Page 373 - Courts, and as the usages of society alter, the law must adapt itself to the various situations of mankind.

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