The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas, and Exchequer of Chamber, ...E. B. Ince, 1846 |
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Page 212 - That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 212 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 103 - ... then, and in every such case, it shall be lawful for the said...
Page 118 - An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons' Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia ; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.
Page 25 - shall extend to a Body Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, as well as an Individual ; and every Word importing the Singular Number only shall extend and be applied to several Persons or Things as well as one Person or Thing ; and every Word importing the Plural...
Page 7 - ... shall extend to a body politic, corporate, or collegiate, as well as an individual ; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing ; and every word importing the plural number...
Page 228 - ... has obtained credit from the plaintiff under false pretences, or by means of fraud or breach of trust, or has wilfully contracted such debt or liability without having had at the same time a reasonable expectation of being able to pay or discharge the same, or shall have made or caused to be made any gift, delivery, or transfer...
Page 237 - An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 294 - An Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland...
Page 71 - Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting in and for the said county...