Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas, and Exchequer Chamber and in the House of Lords;: From Easter Term 36 Geo. III. 1796, to Trinity Term 39 Geo. III. 1799, Both Inclusive. With Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, Volume 1Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer Chamber, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords A. Strahan, law printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1814 - Law reports, digests, etc - 658 pages |
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Page 320 - Be it known that as well in own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in part or in all...
Page 555 - For no country ever takes notice of the revenue laws of another. " <The objection, that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant, sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant. It is not for his sake, however, that the objection is ever allowed; but it is founded in general principles of policy, which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice, as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may so say. The principle of public policy...
Page 555 - The principle of public policy is this; ex dolo malo non oritur actio. No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
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Page 4 - Is the man who has paid over money to another's use to dispute the legality of the original consideration? Having once waived the legality, the money shall never come back into his hands again. Can the defendant then in conscience keep the money so paid? For what purpose should he retain it? To whom is he to pay it over, who is entitled to it but the plaintiff ? EYRE, Ch.
Page 364 - Does the omission enable the plaintiff to chuse his own time and place ? If so, the objection would be well founded. I think, that, if an original notice be given specifying the hour and place as well as the day, and that notice be afterwards continued with an alteration of the day only, the latter will refer to the former, and incorporate the hour and place; and that it would be an irregularity in the plaintiff to execute his writ of inquiry at any other hour or place than those mentioned in the...