Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery: Before Sir William Page Wood, Knt., Vice-chancellor. [1859-1862], Volum 2

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Pàgina 563 - That, when the access and use of light to and for any dwelling-house, workshop, or other building, shall have been actually enjoyed therewith for the full period of twenty years without interruption, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible, any local usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding, unless it shall appear that the same was enjoyed by some consent or agreement expressly made or given for that purpose by deed or writing.
Pàgina 593 - Where the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding expires on a Sunday, or other day on which the offices are closed, and by reason thereof such act or proceeding cannot be done or taken on that day, such act or proceeding shall, so far as regards the time of doing or taking the same, be held to be duly done or taken, if done or taken on the day on which the offices shall next be open.
Pàgina 784 - Every man must be held responsible for the consequences of a false representation made by him to another upon which a third person acts, and so acting is injured or damnified, provided it appear that such false representation was made with the intent that it should be. acted upon by such third person in the manner that occasions the injury or loss. . . . But to bring it within the principle, the injury, I apprehend, must be the immediate and not the remote consequence of the representation thus made.
Pàgina 288 - Where a company is in course of being wound up voluntarily, and proceedings are taken for the purpose of having the same wound up by the Court, the Court may, if it thinks fit, notwithstanding that it makes an order directing the company to be wound up by the Court, provide in such order or in any other order for the adoption of all or any of the proceedings taken in the course of the voluntary winding up.
Pàgina 179 - ... shall extend to manors, advowsons, messuages, and all other hereditaments, whether corporeal or incorporeal (except such as are not liable to dower), and to any share thereof; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing.
Pàgina 370 - ... preferred, and to take before the younger of such sons, and the heirs male of his and their body or respective bodies issuing; AND for default of such issue...
Pàgina 476 - All the rest, residue, and remainder of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever, and of what nature or kind soever...
Pàgina 23 - ... every man must be held responsible for the consequences of a false representation made by him to another, upon which a third person acts, and, so acting, is injured or...
Pàgina 51 - ... habits of the persons residing therein, — the said commissioners shall represent such opinion to His Majesty in council, and shall state in such representation the bounds by which such districts are proposed to be described ; and if thereupon His Majesty in council shall think fit to direct such division to be made, such order of His Majesty in council shall be valid and good in law for the purpose of effecting such division...
Pàgina 103 - With regard to the argument against the validity of the agreement, I may clear the ground of one objection by saying that I see nothing in the alleged injury to the public arising from the prevention of competition. * * * It is a mistaken notion that the public is benefited by pitting two railway companies against each other till one is ruined, the result being at last to raise the fares to the highest possible standard.

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