The Law Quarterly Review, Volume 22Frederick Pollock Stevens and Sons, 1906 - Law |
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... ENGLAND ? By J. Westlake , K.C. · KATHIAWAR JURISDICTION CASES , THE . By Sir A. C. Lyall , K.C.B. , G.C.I.E. · LAW SOCIETY ON OFFICIALISM , THE . By Sir Howard W. Elphinstone , Bart .. 431 • 127 50 64 14 246 27 LEGAL CONCEPTIONS FROM A ...
... ENGLAND ? By J. Westlake , K.C. · KATHIAWAR JURISDICTION CASES , THE . By Sir A. C. Lyall , K.C.B. , G.C.I.E. · LAW SOCIETY ON OFFICIALISM , THE . By Sir Howard W. Elphinstone , Bart .. 431 • 127 50 64 14 246 27 LEGAL CONCEPTIONS FROM A ...
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... England ? • 213 • 14 YOUNG , E. HILTON . - The Legal Personality of a Foreign Corporation 178 SHARPE , H. BIRCH . - Maritime Salvage • SNOW , THOMAS . - The Consolidation of the High Court and the County Courts SUBJECTS OF BOOK REVIEWS ...
... England ? • 213 • 14 YOUNG , E. HILTON . - The Legal Personality of a Foreign Corporation 178 SHARPE , H. BIRCH . - Maritime Salvage • SNOW , THOMAS . - The Consolidation of the High Court and the County Courts SUBJECTS OF BOOK REVIEWS ...
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... England ( 2nd ed . by Mr. Justice A. Wood Renton and Max . A. Robertson ) Erratum • Evans ( Frank ) .- See Palmer ( Francis B. ) . Farran ( E. C . ) .- See Walker ( R. A. ) . • • 108 , 344 461 13 Fox ( John C . ) .- See Yearly Supreme ...
... England ( 2nd ed . by Mr. Justice A. Wood Renton and Max . A. Robertson ) Erratum • Evans ( Frank ) .- See Palmer ( Francis B. ) . Farran ( E. C . ) .- See Walker ( R. A. ) . • • 108 , 344 461 13 Fox ( John C . ) .- See Yearly Supreme ...
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... England and in New Jersey · Hearth , The , as a memorial of ownership ( n . ) . · • Henderson ( J. S . ) .— Analytical Digest of Cases published in the Law Journal Reports and the Law Reports , 1901-5 . Henriques ( H. S. Q . ) .- Law of ...
... England and in New Jersey · Hearth , The , as a memorial of ownership ( n . ) . · • Henderson ( J. S . ) .— Analytical Digest of Cases published in the Law Journal Reports and the Law Reports , 1901-5 . Henriques ( H. S. Q . ) .- Law of ...
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... England and Ireland ( 10th ed . by W. E. Hume - Williams , K.C. ) Pollock ( Edward ) .- See Russell on Arbitration ... England . Revised Reports ( edited by Sir F. Pollock , assisted by O. A. Saunders , J. G. Pease , and A. B. Cane ) 116 ...
... England and Ireland ( 10th ed . by W. E. Hume - Williams , K.C. ) Pollock ( Edward ) .- See Russell on Arbitration ... England . Revised Reports ( edited by Sir F. Pollock , assisted by O. A. Saunders , J. G. Pease , and A. B. Cane ) 116 ...
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Page 411 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Page 23 - It may not be unworthy of remark, that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled. The people change their allegiance; their relation...
Page 406 - ... mariners, and of all other perils, losses, and misfortunes that have, or shall come to the hurt, detriment, or damage of the said goods and merchandises, and ship, etc., or any part thereof.
Page 409 - It is perhaps correct to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which may be designated, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law.
Page 414 - For though in particular cases the repugnance of the law to dissolve the obligations of matrimonial cohabitation may operate with great severity upon individuals, yet it must be carefully remembered that the general happiness of the married life is secured by its indissolubility. When people understand that they must live together, except for a very few reasons known to the law, they learn to soften by mutual accommodation that yoke which they know they cannot shake off; they become good husbands,...
Page 324 - ... the rule against perpetuities. "The rule against perpetuities is thus stated : 'No interest subject to a condition precedent is good unless the condition must be fulfilled, if at all, within twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.
Page 21 - He is entrusted with making the treaty of peace: he may yield up the conquest, or retain it upon what terms he pleases. These powers no man ever disputed, neither has it hitherto been controverted that the King might change part or the whole of the law or political form of government of a conquered dominion.
Page 324 - No interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest.
Page 14 - But any doctrine so invoked must be one really accepted as binding between nations, and the international law sought to be applied must, like anything else, be proved by satisfactory evidence which must...
Page 112 - Frauds does not prevent the proof of a fraud ; and that it is a fraud on the part of a person to whom land is conveyed as a trustee, and who knows it was so conveyed, to deny the trust and claim the land himself. Consequently, notwithstanding the statute, it is competent for a person claiming land conveyed to another to prove by parol evidence that it was so conveyed upon trust for the claimant, and that the grantee, knowing the facts, is denying the trust and relying upon the form of conveyance...