Reports of Cases Argued and Determined Before the Committees of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Appointed to Hear Appeals and Petitions, Volum 2

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Pàgina 389 - ... free and clear of all incumbrances done by him, or any claiming by, from, or under him, and...
Pàgina 318 - Raja will be administered by him, and he will be bound to establish a system of justice and order; the rest of the country will be held by the Honourable Company.
Pàgina 77 - will not assist a man, who is capable of taking care of his own interest, except in cases where he has been imposed upon, by deceit, against which ordinary prudence could not protect him. If a person of ordinary understanding, on whom no fraud has been practised, makes an imprudent bargain, no court of justice can release him from it.1 Inadequacy of consideration is not a substantial ground for setting aside a conveyance of property.
Pàgina 68 - ... either granted him an exclusive right to it, or has permitted him to have possession of it, and to employ his money and labour upon it, so as to confer upon him a title by occupation, the foundation of most of the rights of property in land. This is the law of England, and the cases referred to, prove that it is the law of Jersey.
Pàgina 361 - We think the proper character of the transaction was that of a hostile seizure, made, if not flagrante, yet nondum bello, regard being had both to the time, the place, and the person ; and, consequently, that the municipal court had no jurisdiction to adjudge upon the subject : but that, if any thing was done amiss, — recourse could only be had to the government for redress. We shall therefore recommend it to his majesty to reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court of Bombay.
Pàgina 260 - We did, by certain letters patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster the...
Pàgina 411 - On the other hand, if at the time of the sale the seller knows, not only that the person who is nominally dealing with him is not principal but agent, and also knows who the principal really is, and notwithstanding all that knowledge, chooses to make the agent his debtor, dealing with him and him alone; then...
Pàgina 316 - ... governor, but who had been permitted to reside under military surveillance in his own house in the city, in which the seizure was made, and which was at a distance from the scene of actual hostilities...
Pàgina 317 - Candeish under the personal command of His Excellency Sir Thomas Hislop. A force under General Munro is reducing the Carnatic, and a force from Bombay is taking the forts in the Concun and occupying -.hat country so that in a short time no trace of Bajee Row will remain.
Pàgina 29 - An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subject, and for Prevention of Imprisonments beyond the Seas.

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