Cases Heard and Determined in Her Majesty's Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements 1808-1890, Volum 1Singapore and Straits Printing Office, 1885 |
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action admitted aforesaid agent alleged ANOR appear apply appointed bill breach Captain Charter Cheah CHETTY claim Claridge clause Colony Commissioners contended contract Court of Equity creditor deceased deed defendant defendant's dollars duty entitled evidence executors fact Fatimah fees George Leith Government Governor grant HACKETT held Hossack India Indian Act Island Judge judgment jurisdiction Justice Khoo L. J. Ch land letter liable Lieutenant-Governor Magistrate Mahomed Mahomedan Malacca matter MAXWELL ment mortgage NORRIS notice Omar opinion Ordinance orlongs paid parties payment Penang person piculs plaintiff plea present Prince of Wales principle Province Wellesley purchase Quedah question Rajah reason received Recorder referred Registrar rent Resident Councillor Rodyk Settlement Sheriff shew ship SIDGREAVES Singapore Sir William Norris Someren Spanish Dollars stamp Statute Straits Straits Settlements suit Supreme Court Syed tenant testator tion trust void WOOD
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Pàgina 79 - ... the rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenants' rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Pàgina 559 - ... no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Pàgina 110 - ... a full and complete cargo of salt in bulk. Cargo to be brought to and taken from alongside at merchants' risk and expense, which the said merchants hereby bind themselves to ship, not exceeding what she can reasonably stow and carry over and above her tackle, apparel, provisions and furniture...
Pàgina 275 - ... unless in the meantime some part of the principal money, or some interest thereon, shall have been paid, or some acknowledgment of the right thereto shall have been given in writing, signed by the person by whom the same shall be payable, or his agent, to the person entitled thereto, or his agent...
Pàgina 110 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Pàgina 466 - But there is another proposition equally well established, and it is a qualification upon the first, namely: that though the plaintiff may have been guilty of negligence, and although that negligence may, in fact, have contributed to the accident, yet if the defendant could in the result, by the exercise of ordinary care and diligence, have avoided the mischief which happened, the plaintiff's negligence will not excuse him.
Pàgina 79 - Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Pàgina 404 - ... by writing on or across the stamp his name or initials, or the name or initials of his firm, together with the true date of his so writing...
Pàgina 72 - Fraud, indeed, in the sense of a court of equity properly includes all acts, omissions and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence, justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another.
Pàgina 449 - ... act, at and not before the time at which such land or rent shall have been conveyed to a purchaser for a valuable consideration, and shall then be deemed to have accrued only as against such purchaser, and any person claiming through him.