The Law Quarterly Review, Volume 22Frederick Pollock Stevens and Sons, 1906 - Law |
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... known bankers , to secure an advance , forging B's name ; the bank sends in the transfer to the Corpora- tion for registration , and the Corporation registers the bank as holder of the stock . Eight years later the forgery is discovered ...
... known bankers , to secure an advance , forging B's name ; the bank sends in the transfer to the Corpora- tion for registration , and the Corporation registers the bank as holder of the stock . Eight years later the forgery is discovered ...
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... known Act of Parliament , were tried for a misdemeanour , on an information filed by the Attorney - General , ' as infractors of the law of nations ' : the ex- pression is Lord Mansfield's , in Triquet v . Bath , 3 Burr . 1480. They ...
... known Act of Parliament , were tried for a misdemeanour , on an information filed by the Attorney - General , ' as infractors of the law of nations ' : the ex- pression is Lord Mansfield's , in Triquet v . Bath , 3 Burr . 1480. They ...
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... known evil - doing suddenly erected by an individual judge , as a depository of the common law , into a crime . For nobody would suggest that a judge could nowadays declare that seduction is an indictable offence , though it is severely ...
... known evil - doing suddenly erected by an individual judge , as a depository of the common law , into a crime . For nobody would suggest that a judge could nowadays declare that seduction is an indictable offence , though it is severely ...
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... known . The exact time of the publication of the Dayabhaga is hopelessly uncertain . It is even said that the name Jimutavahana itself is fictitious . Mr. Mayne says : ' It has been supposed that the Dayabhaga was written under the ...
... known . The exact time of the publication of the Dayabhaga is hopelessly uncertain . It is even said that the name Jimutavahana itself is fictitious . Mr. Mayne says : ' It has been supposed that the Dayabhaga was written under the ...
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... known do not profess to maintain the peculiar doctrines enunciated by Jimutavahana . The rules of law adopted by Jimutavahana were far in advance of any that had been placed before the people by the text - writers and commentators ...
... known do not profess to maintain the peculiar doctrines enunciated by Jimutavahana . The rules of law adopted by Jimutavahana were far in advance of any that had been placed before the people by the text - writers and commentators ...
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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...