Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Volum 11

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Side 115 - No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.
Side 115 - 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 say so. The principle of public policy is this : ex dolo malo non oritur actio.
Side 90 - Any person who in any public place or at any public meeting uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned, shall be guilty of an offence.
Side 109 - In Ex parte Miles, 15 QBD 39, I cited the test laid down by Lord Ellenborough in Dixon v. Baldwen, 5 East, 175, where he says, "the goods had so far gotten to the end of their journey that they waited for new orders from the purchaser to put them again in motion, to communicate to them another substantive destination, and that without such orders they would continue stationary...
Side 126 - ... intent to take the entire dominion over them, really believing when he takes them, that the owner cannot be found, it is not larceny. But if he takes them with the like intent, though lost, or reasonably supposed to be lost, but reasonably believing that the owner can be found, it is larceny.
Side 206 - If any person, by a course of conduct, or by actual expressions, so conducts himself that another may reasonably infer the existence of an agreement or license, whether the party intends that he should do so or not, it has the effect that the party using that language, or who has so conducted himself, cannot afterwards gainsay the reasonable inference to be drawn from his words or conduct.
Side 194 - In case any such judgment, decree, order, or sentence shall be given or pronounced for or in respect of any sum or matter at issue above the amount or value of three hundred pounds sterling (£300), or in case such judgment, decree, order, or sentence...
Side 118 - The actual delivery to the vendee or his agent, which puts an end to the transitus, or state of passage, may be at the vendee's own warehouse, or at a place which he uses as his own, though belonging to another, for the deposit of goods ; Scott v.
Side 303 - There can be no doubt that the master is bound to employ the telegraph as a means of communication where it can usefully be done, but in this case the state of the particular telegraph, the way it was managed, and how far explanatory messages could be transmitted by it, having regard to the time and circumstances...
Side 300 - A rule having been obtained calling on the plaintiff to shew cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had...

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