 | Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 736 pages
...inasmuch as the act done did not redeem the trader even from any present difficulty, which is the ordinary motive for such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat, is evMence that it was nut done under such pressure, but voluntarily, and with a view to prefer the... | |
 | Nicholas Baylies - Law reports, digests, etc - 1814 - 576 pages
...act done did not redeem the trader even from any present difficulty, which is the ordinary motive of such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat, is evidence that it was not done under such pressure, but voluntarily and with a view to prefer the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1818 - 730 pages
...inasmuch as the act done did not redeem the trader even from any present difficulty, which is the ordinary motive for such an act, when really done under the pressure of a threat, is evidence that it was not done under such pressure, but voluntarily, and with a view to prefer the... | |
 | George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...he did not redeem himself even from any present difficulty by doing the act, which js the motive of such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat" (r). But if a debtor, at the desire of his creditor, give goods out of his shop, in part-payment of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 964 pages
...inasmuch as the act done did not redeem the trader even from any present difficulty, which is the ordinary motive for such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat, it amounted to evidence that it was not done under such pressure, but voluntarily, and with a view... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 686 pages
...the transfer by dint of the threat; for he did not redeem himself even from any present difficulty by doing the act ; ' which is the motive for such an...preference on his part, as to the particular creditors." But in that case, although the payment was made under stronger circumstances than in the present, yet,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 850 pages
...for such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat. And if he got nothing by avoiding the threat, I should rather say that it was a voluntary...act, and preference on his part as to the particular creditor, although it is a very suspicious case, and fit to be enquired into and submitted to another... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 830 pages
...make the transfer by dint of the threap for he did not redeem himself from any present difficulty by doing the act, which is the motive for such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat." It is difficult, however, to determine what is meant by an act done under pressure of a threat; for... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1831 - 788 pages
...as the act done did not redeem the trader, even from any present difficulty, which is the ordinary motive for such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat, it was evidence that it was not done under such a pressure but voluntarily, and with a view to prefer... | |
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... doing the act; which is the motive for such an act when really done under the pressure of a threat. And if he got nothing by evading the threat, I should rather say that it was a voluntary act and preference on his part as to the particular creditors. 
