Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: On Appeal from the ... Courts ... in the East Indies

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Pàgina 372 - That the said Supreme Court shall not have, or exercise, any jurisdiction, in any matter concerning the revenue, or concerning any act or acts ordered or done in the collection thereof, according to the usage and practice of the country, or the Regulations of the Governor-General and Council.
Pàgina 29 - A wife is declared by the wise, to be half the body of her husband, equally sharing the fruit of pure and impure acts. Of him whose wife is not deceased, half the body survives. How should another take the property while half the body of the owner lives
Pàgina 346 - that the opium to be sold was the property of the Government of India, and that the produce was to form part of the public revenue. I regret to say that we are bound to consider the common law of England to be, that an action may be maintained on a wager, although the parties had
Pàgina 221 - lawful for him, her or them to appeal to us, our heirs or successors, in our or their Privy Council, in such manner, and under such restrictions and qualifications, as are hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, in all judgments or determinations made
Pàgina 346 - previous interest in the question on which it is laid, if it be not against the interests or feelings of third persons, and does not lead to indecent evidence, and is not contrary to public policy. I look with concern and almost with shame, on the subterfuges, and
Pàgina 361 - Supreme Court should not have or exercise any jurisdiction in any matter concerning the revenue or concerning any act or acts ordered or done in the collection thereof, according to the usage and practice of the country, or the regulations of the Governor-General and Council.
Pàgina 377 - Our books actually swarm with decisions putting a contrary construction upon such enactments, and there can be no rule more firmly established, than that if parties bond fide and not absurdly believe that they are acting in pursuance of Statutes, and according to law, they are entitled to the special protection which the
Pàgina 361 - or concerning any act or acts ordered or done in the collection thereof, according to the usage and practice of the country, or the regulations of the Governor-General and Council.
Pàgina 371 - within the said town and Island of Bombay, and the limits thereof, and the territories subordinate thereto, and within the territories which now are, or hereafter may be, subject to, or dependent upon, the said government of
Pàgina 355 - and obtained a rule nisi, to show cause, why a verdict should not be entered for the Defendants, on the ground, that the

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