A General Abridgement of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper Titles ; with Notes and References to the WholeG.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1791 - Law |
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Page 11 - The fifth sort is when goods or chattels are delivered to be carried, or something is to be done about them for a reward to be paid by the person who delivers them to the bailee, who is to do the thing about them.
Page 11 - The fourth sort is, when goods or chattels are delivered to another as a pawn, to be a security to him for money borrowed of him by the bailor; and this is called in Latin, vadium and in English a pawn or a pledge.
Page 258 - ... 4thly. The plaintiff declared on a special custom in London for the bearer to have this action. To which the defendant demurred, without traversing the custom; so that he confessed it, whereas in truth there was no such custom ; and the court was of opinion, that for this reason judgment should be given for the plaintiff; for though the court is to take notice of the law of merchants as part of the law of England, yet they cannot take notice of the custom of particular places ; and the custom...
Page 473 - It is laid down as a general rule, that a man cannot grant or charge that which he hath not; and, therefore, if a man grant a rent-charge out of the manor of Dale, and in truth he hath not anything in the manor of Dale, and afterward he purchased the manor of Dale, yet he shall hold it discharged.
Page 402 - I do agree the court ought to be very tender how they help any defendant after a trial at law, in a matter where such defendant had an opportunity to defend himself.
Page 212 - BENCH. not to suffer the prosecutor to go on in the trial of an indictment of this kind, without giving the defendant a note of the particular matters which he intends to prove against him ; for otherwise it will be impossible to prepare a defence against so general and uncertain a charge, which may be proved by such a multiplicity of different instances.
Page 546 - Et per cur: if two come to a shop, and one buys, and the other, to gain him credit, promises the seller, 'if he does not pay you, I will,' this is a collateral undertaking, and void without writing, by the Statute of Frauds. But if he says, 'let him have the goods, I will be your paymaster...
Page 323 - ... to any man's laws, but only to fuch " as have been devifed, made, and ordained -within this realm ." for the wealth of the fame ; or to fuch other as, by fuffer...
Page 499 - In 1713 an English court recognized the principle of dedication in the following opinion: "If a vill be erected, and a way laid out to it, if there be no other way but that to the vill, it is not material quo animo it was laid out, it shall be deemed a public way.
Page 253 - ... the last of the said days, the party ought immediately to protest the bill and return it, and by this means the drawer will be charged : but if he does not protest it the last of the three days, which are called the days of grace, there, although he upon whom the bill is drawn fails, the drawer will not be chargeable ; for it shall be reckoned ,his folly, that he did not protest, &c.