Lawrance's Bengal Law Reports: Being Decisions of the High Court at Calcutta, and of Her Majesty's ... Privy Council on Indian Appeals, 1868-75, Volum 2

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1882
 

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Pàgina 31 - By the decree it was, among other things, declared, that according to the true construction of the will of the...
Pàgina 134 - In the case of an insurance for a certain voyage it is clearly established that there is an implied warranty that the vessel shall be seaworthy, by which it is meant that she shall be in a fit state as to repairs, equipment and crew, and in all other respects, to encounter the ordinary perils of the voyage insured at the time of sailing upon it.
Pàgina 57 - Hall, that in construing wills, and indeed statutes, and all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity or some repugnance or inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid that absurdity and inconsistency, but no further.
Pàgina 202 - All rights and interests which any widow may have in her deceased husband's property by way of maintenance, or by inheritance to her husband or to his lineal successors or by virtue of any will or testamentary disposition conferring upon her, without express permission to remarry, only a limited interest in such property, with no power of alienating the same, shall upon her remarriage cease and determine as if she had then died; and the next heirs of her deceased husband, or other persons entitled...
Pàgina 7 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true : first, that the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another Court...
Pàgina 137 - That the said ship being tight, staunch and strong, and every way fitted for the voyage...
Pàgina 2 - I have felt considerable doubt about the case ; but, after the best consideration I have been able to give to it, I...
Pàgina 87 - ... or that, being in the possession of the party himself at such time, it was so in his possession not on his own account or as his own property, but on account of or in trust for some other person, the Court shall pass an order for releasing the said property from attachment.
Pàgina 85 - ... a decree for the larger sum, and for so much only as shall remain after deducting the smaller sum, and satisfaction for the smaller sum shall be entered on the Decree for the larger sum as well as satisfaction on the Decree for the smaller sum, and if both sums shall be equal, satisfaction shall be entered upon both Decrees.
Pàgina 101 - Code or any other law for the punishment of such resistance or obstruction, proceed to investigate the claim in the same manner and with the like power as if a suit for the property had been instituted by the decree-holder against the claimant...

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