Results: 119

• Berry v The Exchange Trading Co

  17 Dec 1875 1 QBD 77, DC

  PRACTICE — Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 77), Schedule, Order LIII., rules 2, 3 — Failure to appear in Court, after giving Notice of Motion
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  PRACTICE — Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 77), Schedule, Order LIII., rules 2, 3 — Failure to appear in Court, after giving Notice of Motion — Costs.

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• The Queen v The Inhabitants Of Greenhow

  10 May 1876 1 QBD 703, DC

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  HIGHWAY — Indictment for Non-repair — Landslip covering Part of Highway
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  HIGHWAY — Indictment for Non-repair — Landslip covering Part of Highway — Exemption from Liability.

• Pulbrook v Lawes

  19 Jan 1876 1 QBD 284, DC

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  CONTRACT — Agreement for lease — Statute of Frauds
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  CONTRACT — Agreement for lease — Statute of Frauds — Work done upon Premises by intended Lessee — Common Counts.

• The Queen v Berry

  20 May 1876 1 QBD 447, Crown Cases Reserved

  CRIME — Deaf mute — Incapacity to understand Proceedings at Trial for Felony.
  KELLY, C.B. This case may be determined both on authority and principle. An authority which has never been overruled or doubted is to be found in Reg. v. Pritchard, where a person, deaf and dumb, was to be tried for a capital felony before Alderson, B., who ordered a jury to be impanelled to try whether he was mute by the visitation of God; the jury found that he was so. The jury were then sworn to try whether he was able to plead, which they found in the affirmative, and the prisoner by a sign pleaded not guilty. The
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  CRIME — Deaf mute — Incapacity to understand Proceedings at Trial for Felony.

• De Hart v Stevenson

  23 Feb 1876 1 QBD 313, DC

  PRACTICE — Parties to Action — One Person suing for others having same interest
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  PRACTICE — Parties to Action — One Person suing for others having same interest — Order XVI., Rules 9, 13, Schedule to 38 & 39 Vict. c. 77 — Security for Costs.

• Swire v Redman and Holt

  04 Jul 1876 1 QBD 536, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  DEBT — Two joint debtors, right of, as against creditor with notice, to be treated as principal and surety.
  July 4. COCKBURN, C.J. I will proceed to read the judgment in this case prepared by my Brother Blackburn, in which I fully concur. In this action, tried before Baron Bramwell, the defendant Holt made no defence; and the action was tried between the plaintiff and Redman, who defended. After the evidence for the plaintiffs had been completed, Mr. Benjamin stated the defendant Redman's case; but the learned Judge ruled that, supposing that the facts opened should be proved, there was no case for the defendant to go to the jury; and he directed a verdict for the amount claimed,
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  DEBT — Two joint debtors, right of, as against creditor with notice, to be treated as principal and surety.

• The Queen v Cresswell

  29 Jan 1876 1 QBD 446, Crown Cases Reserved

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  MARRIAGE — Bigamy — First Marriage celebrated elsewhere than in a Church
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  MARRIAGE — Bigamy — First Marriage celebrated elsewhere than in a Church — Presumption that Building was duly licensed.

• Sugg v Silber (No 1)

  10 Apr 1876 1 QBD 362, DC

  PRACTICE — Judicature act, 1873, ss. 56, 57 — Order XXXVI., Rules 2, 3, 5, 6, 26
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  PRACTICE — Judicature act, 1873, ss. 56, 57 — Order XXXVI., Rules 2, 3, 5, 6, 26 — Trial before Judge with Assessors — Right of Defendant to give Notice of Trial by Jury.

  1 Statute considered
• Thomas v Brown

  26 May 1876 1 QBD 714, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 9.
  FRAUD — Statute of frauds — Vendor and Purchaser
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  FRAUD — Statute of frauds — Vendor and Purchaser — Memorandum of Agreement — Description of contracting Party as “Vendor” — Deposit, when recoverable — Acquiescence.

• The Queen On The Prosecution Of Hargraves v Steel

  14 Feb 1876 1 QBD 482, DC

  COSTS — Information for Libel — 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96, s. 8
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  COSTS — Information for Libel — 6 & 7 Vict. c. 96, s. 8 — Defendants' Costs before filing of Information.