The Revised Reports: Being a Publication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, from the Year 1785, as are Still of Practical Utility ... 1785-1866 ...

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Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Edward Potton
Sweet and Maxwell, 1891

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Strana 399 - Because no man shall be permitted to take the chance of committing a fraud, without running any risk of losing by the event, when it is detected.
Strana 817 - With respect to the disposition of it, with respect to the transmission of it, either by succession or the act of the party, it follows the law of the person. The owner in any country may dispose of his personal property. If he dies, it is not the law of the country in which the property is, but the law of the country of which he was a subject, that will regulate the succession.
Strana 281 - Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of my executors/ nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection/ I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God/ and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life/ I give Devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form.
Strana 765 - Mansfield that where mutual covenants go to the whole of the consideration on both sides, they are mutual conditions, the one precedent to the other. But where they go only to a part, where a breach may be paid for in damages, there the defendant has a remedy on his covenant and shall not plead it as a condition precedent.
Strana 750 - with Sir William Jones, that when a bailee undertakes to perform a gratuitous act, from which the bailor alone is to receive benefit, then the bailee is only liable for gross negligence. But if a man gratuitously undertakes to do a thing to the best of his skill, when his situation or profession is such as to imply skill, an omission of that skill is imputable to him as gross negligence.
Strana 518 - Vaughan now moved for a rule to shew cause, why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted.
Strana 310 - In an action by the indorsee against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, drawn payable to
Strana 749 - If a man applies to a surgeon to attend him in a disorder for a reward, and the surgeon treats him improperly, there is gross negligence, and the surgeon is liable to an action; the surgeon would also be liable for such negligence if he undertook gratis to attend a sick person, because his situation implies skill in surgery.
Strana 91 - May 1785, when it was referred to the Master to take an account of the personal estate of the testator...
Strana 13 - The clear result of all the cases, without a single exception, is, that the trust of a legal estate, whether freehold, copyhold, or leasehold; whether taken in the names of the purchasers and...

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