 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - 1812 - 486 sider
...verdict in that case would be good " if found upon the bills of exchange." His next assertion is, " that the maintaining these actions upon such notes,...were innovations upon the rules of the common law." But if, as we have shown, the custom of merchants is a part of the rommon law ; if promissory notes... | |
 | B. A. Heywood - 1812 - 110 sider
...of common law, setting " upa ncwsort of speciality unknown incommon ''law, and invented hi' Lombard. street, which " attempted, in these matters of bills of exchange, "to give the law to Westminster Hall." One of these notes being established in the Common Pleas upon the declaration... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - 1825 - 778 sider
...innovations upon the common-law :" That " it was a " new sort of specialty invented in Lombard-street, which " attempted, in these matters of bills of exchange,...That the continuing to declare upon " these notes on the custom of merchants proceeded from ob" stinacy, as he had expressed his opinion against them,... | |
 | 1838 - 534 sider
...amounted to the setting up a new kind of specialty unknown to the common law, and invented in Lombard street, which attempted in these matters of Bills...Exchange to give laws to Westminster Hall : that the continnuing to declare upon these notes, upon the custom of merchant«, proceeded from obstinacy and... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 sider
...hostility to the whole monied tribe. He designated them as " a new kind of specialty invented in Lombard Street, which attempted in these matters of bills of exchange to give laws to Westminster Hall ;" and declared on another occasion, " I am of opinion, and always was, notwithstanding the noise and... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1873 - 804 sider
...against the action ; and said that this note could not be a bill of exchange. That the maintaining of these actions upon such notes were innovations upon the rules of the common law; and that it amounted to the setting up a new sort of specialty unknown to the common law, and invented... | |
 | James Barr Ames - 1881 - 910 sider
...against the action, and said that this note could not be a bill of exchange. That the maintaining of these actions upon such notes were innovations upon the rules of the common law ; and that it amounted to the setting up a new sort of specialty, unknown to the common law, and invented... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 758 sider
...verdict in that case would be good "if found upon the bills of exchange." His next assertion is, " that the maintaining these actions upon such notes,...were innovations upon the rules of the common law." But if, as we have shown, the custom of merchants is a part of the common law; if promissory notes... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1883 - 592 sider
...viribus against the action, and said this note could not be a Bill of Exchange : that the maintaining of these actions upon such Notes were innovations upon the rules of the Common Law, and that it amounted to setting a new sect of Specialty, unknown to the Common Law, and invented in Lombard... | |
 | 1886 - 808 sider
...judicially before the court of king's bench in the case of Clarke v. Martin, as reported in 2Ld. Kay HI. 757, when Lord Holt said " that the maintaining these...upon the rules of the common law, and invented in Lombard street, which attempted in these matters of bills of exchange to give laws to Westminster Hall.... | |
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That the maintaining of these actions upon such notes, were innovations upon the rules of the common law; and that it amounted to the setting up a new sort of specialty unknown to the common law, and invented in Lombard street, which attempted in these... 
