The Law Reports

London: By William Clowes and Sons. 1876. — 850 p. Declaration in prohibition, the substance of which was, that the plaintiffs complained that process of foreign attachment had been issued in an action in the Mayor s Court against them, as garnishees, by the Mayor s Court of London, they being a corporation, and not liable by law to any process of foreign attachment; and that...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1875. — 412 p. Action brought to recover damages for injures sustained by the plaintiff through the defenfants neglince, while he was travelling as a passenger of their line. The cause was tried at Stafford, before Pigott, B., at the last Summer Assizes. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 217 I.; but, as it appeared that he had received...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1877. — 640 p. Statement of claim incorporated the particulars set forth in the special indorsement on the writ, which were in respect of work done by the plaintiffs for the defendant, in the year 1873. The 2nd paragraph of the statement of defence stated that proceedings for liquidation by arrangement under the Bunkruptcy Act, 1869, had been taken...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1878. — 574 p. The defendants, a telegram company, through the negligence of their servants, delivered to the plaintiffs a message which was not intended for them. The plaintiffs, who reasonably supposed that the message came from their agents and was intended for them, acted upon it and thereby incurred a loss.

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1879. — 512 p. G. having been guilty of forgery, absconded. The defendants published a handbill offering a reward of 200 l. "to any person giving such information to A. superintendent of police, Dewsbury, or to H. superintendent of police, Wakefield, as will lead to the apprehension of the said G."

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1879. — 606 p. Outside the cover of a paper book of coupons forming a railway ticked, issued to the plaintiff by the defendants, was printed the name of their railway, the words "Cheap return ticket, London to Paris and back, Second class," and a statement of the period and journey for which the ticket was available, but no reference to the...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1871. — 688 p. By a deed of composition under the Bankruptsy Act, 1861, the debtor assigned all his lands, goods, to trustees, and covenanted that he would carry on or wind up his business under their superintendence and control, and that all moneys, accruing in respect of the business should be deposited in a bank, and that he would act under the...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1881. — 890 p. On the 12 August 1879 a woman was convicted of being drunk and disorderly by a metropolitan police magistrate sitting at Lambeth in Surrey, and ajudged to be imprisoned in the Westminster prison in Middlesex. By a warrant of commitment in the form P 1 in the shedule to 11 and 12 Vict. c. 43 the magistrate commanded the appellant...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1873. — 780 p. Declaration for that before and at the time of the retainer and employment of the defendant, and of his committing the grievances hereinafter mentioned, the defendant carried on and exercised the business of an average adjuster, and that before the said retainer and employment, and before the committing of the said grievances, a...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1884. — 1030 p. A trustee investing trust funds is justified in employing a broker to procure securities authorized by the trust and paying the purchase-money to the broker, if he folows the usual and regular course of business adopted by ordinary prudent men in making such investments.

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1887. — 814 p. The want having been felt of some memoranda of the changes which have taken place among the Judges and Law Officers, and of the new appointments which have been made, the Council of Law Reporting he caused the following list to be complied. In contains the names of all the Judges of the Superior Courts and Law Officers of the...

London: William Clowes and Sons, 1888. — 262 p. Edward Wilde, late of Sandyford, in the county of Stafford, died February 7, 1879, leaving a will duly executed, by which, after certain specific pecuniary legacies, he bequeathed the residue of his personal estate to Thomas Wilde, his nephew, absolutely, subject to a gift over in certain events hich did not happen. He appointed two...