Revue de législation et de jurisprudence, Volume 1Lowell et Gibson, 1846 - Law |
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account acte action aforesaid agreement amount answer appellant authority Bankrupt bankruptcy Bas-Canada Bench bound brought Cairns called cause claim clause common law communauté contract contrat de mariage Cour du Banc Court créanciers creditors debts déclaration deed of composition Defendant défendeur demanderesse demandeur discharge District donation douaire estate evidence exception Executor fact femme first François Lehoullier fraude further general given good great Hector Turnbull held interest James Hunt James Stuart Jean Barreille John John Glen Judge judgment jugement jurisdiction jurisprudence justice l'intimée last legal Lower Canada made make marguilliers mari mentioned money Montréal necessary Norman Bethune order paid paroisse party payer payment Plaintiff plea pleaded Pothier pound préciput prescription present proceedings promise promise to pay property proved Quebec question Radenhurst reason rendered rente respondent right Robert Cairns rule same special state stipulation subject taken termes thereof time tion usufruit witnesses works writ year
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Page 371 - No contract for the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise for the price of £10 sterling, or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 198 - That in actions of debt, or upon the case, grounded upon any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract...
Page 374 - ... be actually made, procured, or provided, or fit or ready for delivery, or some act may be requisite for the making or completing thereof, or rendering the same fit for delivery...
Page 373 - An Act for rendering a written memorandum necessary to the validity of certain promises and engagements.
Page 371 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 64 - ... of them, so -as to be chargeable in respect or by reason only of any written acknowledgment or promise made and signed by any other or others of them...
Page 64 - ... or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise shall be made or contained by or in some writing to be signed by the party chargeable thereby...
Page 200 - Joint Contractors, or Executors or Administrators, if it shall appear at the Trial or otherwise that the Plaintiff, though barred by either of the said recited Acts or this Act, as to One or more of such Joint Contractors, or Executors or Administrators, shall nevertheless be entitled to recover against any other or others of the Defendants, by virtue of a new Acknowledgment or Promise, or otherwise, Judgment may be given and Costs allowed for the Plaintiff as to such Defendant or Defendants against...
Page 371 - That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate ; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person...
Page 371 - ... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person thereunto...