Mews' Digest of English Case Law: Containing the Reported Decisions of the Superior Courts, and a Selection from Those of the Scottish and Irish Courts to the End of 1924, Volum 19Sweet and Maxwell, 1925 |
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Side 903 - ... no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Side 761 - But if any doubt arises from the terms employed by the Legislature, it has always been held a safe means of collecting the intention, to call in aid the ground and cause of making the statute, and to have recourse to the preamble, which, according to Chief Justice Dyer (Stowel v.
Side 785 - Act any action, prosecution, or other proceeding is commenced in the United Kingdom against any person for any act done in pursuance, or execution, or intended execution of any Act of Parliament, or of any public duty or authority, or in respect of any alleged neglect or default in the execution of any such Act, duty, or authority...
Side 13 - The defendants appealed on the ground that there was no evidence on which the jury could find...
Side 771 - Where the main object and intention of a statute are clear, it must not be reduced to a nullity by the draftsman's unskilfulness or ignorance of the law, except in a case of necessity, or the absolute intractability of the language used.
Side 133 - Every person who enters into a learned profession undertakes to bring to the exercise of it a reasonable degree of care and skill.
Side 281 - Masters] &c., to take an account of all dealings and transactions between the plaintiff and the defendant...
Side 781 - It is a fundamental rule of English law that no statute shall be construed so as to have a retrospective operation unless its language is such as plainly to require such a construction...
Side 353 - THE CONVEYANCING ACT, 1882, together with the General Order made in pursuance of the Solicitors
Side 859 - The law has been settled for the last hundred years. If persons in the position of the appellants, acting in the execution., of a public trust and for the public benefit, do an act which they are authorised by law to do, and do it in a proper manner, though the act so done works a special injury to a particular individual, the individual injured cannot maintain an action. He is without remedy unless a remedy is provided by the statute.