A Digest of the Law of Actions and Trials at Nisi Prius

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E. Lynch, 1794 - 791 sider
 

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Side 100 - Where the agreement is to be performed upon a contingent, and it does not appear within the agreement that it is to be performed after the year, then a note in writing is not necessary, for the contingent might happen within the year; but where it appears by the whole tenor of the agreement that it is to be performed after the year, there a note is necessary.
Side 278 - ... party may recover damages from the other for the injury he may have received by a breach of the covenants in his...
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Side 279 - But this rule admits of some diversities : as, first, if a day be appointed for the payment of the money, and the day is to happen before the thing can be performed, an action may be brought for the money, before the thing be done...
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Side 234 - That where there are mutual debts between the plaintiff and the defendant one debt may be set against the other." This is the whole enactment as applicable to the present case, and upon its true construction the question depends. If the words of the statute had been, that where there were " mutual debts" the one might be set against the other, the argument of Mr.
Side 264 - ... recited that before sealing of the indenture it was agreed on consideration that the plaintiff should have the third part of the coals digged. On demurrer to the declaration, Wild excepted that here is no covenant to pay the third part, but a recital of agreement to have it. But by Hales Chief Justice, Were it but a recital, that before the indenture they were agreed, it is a covenant: and so to say whereas it was agreed to pay £20...
Side 557 - ... for if it was not done to defraud creditors, and keep out of the way, it will not be an aft of bankruptcy within the ftatute. Alfo if after a plain aft of bankruptcy he pays off or compounds with all his creditors.
Side 24 - B. it was holden, that it was within the statute, being an absolute promise, and every way as negotiable as if it had been generally for value received.
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