 | Great Britain. Courts, Thomas Leach - Criminal law - 1815 - 582 pages
...but it has Stra, sos. been decided in the case of Armorie v. Delamain, that where a chimney-sweeper's boy found a jewel and carried it to the shop of the defendant, a goldsmith, to inquire the value of it, and the defendant detained it and refused to deliver it back... | |
 | Edward Christian - Game laws - 1817 - 374 pages
...The plaintiff, being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel, and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith), to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones; and calling... | |
 | Sir Edmund Saunders, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 494 pages
...possession, but which ceases when the true owner appears ; as where the plaintiff, being a chimney sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the shop of the...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of his apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and called... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 pages
...wrong-doer; for possession isprimd facie evidence of property .c( 1 ) As where a chimney-sweeper's boy found a jewel, and carried it to the shop of the...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of his apprentice, who, under the pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 928 pages
...wrong-doer ; for possession is primd facie evidence of property". As where a chimney-sweeper's boy found i jewel, and carried it to the shop of the defendant,...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands >::' his apprentice, who under the pretence of weighing it took or. the stones, and... | |
 | John William Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 744 pages
...THE plaintiff, being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel, and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith) to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 506 pages
...case the plaintiff being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith), to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Edmund Saunders - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 602 pages
...possession, but which ceases when the true owner appears ; as where the plaintiff, being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the shop of the...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of his apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and called... | |
 | William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1856 - 976 pages
...The plaintiff, being a chimney sweeper's boy, found a jewel, and carried it to the defendant's shop, (who was a goldsmith,) to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - Damages - 1867 - 664 pages
...books ; the plaintiff, a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith) to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
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... under pretence of weighing it, took out; the stones, and calling to the master to let him know it came to three halfpence, the master offered the boy the money, who refused to take it, and insisted to have the thing again; whereupon the apprentice... 
