The Law of Contracts, Τόμος 1

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Little, Brown, 1893
 

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Σελίδα 32 - It is a settled doctrine of the law of agency in this state that where the principal has clothed his agent with power to do an act upon the existence of some extrinsic fact necessarily and peculiarly within the knowledge of the agent, and of the existence of which the act of executing the power is itself a representation, a third person dealing with such agent in entire good faith, pursuant to the apparent power, may rely upon the representation, and the principal is estopped from denying its truth...
Σελίδα 142 - Every Partnership whereof the Capital is divided or agreed to be divided into Shares, and so as to be transferable without the express Consent of all the Copartners; and also.
Σελίδα 417 - P. 249] , and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation, on which it is founded, never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision.
Σελίδα 377 - This partnership or community consists of the profits of all the effects of which the husband has the administration and enjoyment, either of right or in fact, of the produce of the reciprocal industry and labor of both husband and wife, and of the...
Σελίδα 473 - But the court said that if that were so, no contract could ever be completed by the post. For if the defendants were not bound by their offer when accepted by the plaintiffs till the answer was received, then the plaintiffs ought not to be bound till after they had received the notification that the defendants had received their answer and assented to it. And so it might go on ad infinitum.
Σελίδα 414 - Motive is not the same thing with consideration. Consideration means something which is of some value in the eye of the law, moving from the plaintiff...
Σελίδα 422 - ... the actual surrender of the possession of the paper to the defendant was a sufficient consideration without reference to its contents.
Σελίδα 463 - ... contract with him, the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other...
Σελίδα 369 - ... of the wife, owned by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, bequest, devise, or descent, with the rents, issues, and profits thereof, is her separate property.
Σελίδα 469 - In the present case, though the writing signed by the defendants was but an offer, and an offer which might be revoked, yet while it remained in force and unrevoked, it was a continuing offer during the time limited for acceptance ; and, during the whole of that time, it was an offer every instant, but as soon as it was accepted, it ceased to be an offer merely, and then ripened into a contract.

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