Hong Kong Law Reports, Volume 2Government Printer, South Africa, 1907 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action agent alleged appear apply Aragonia argument ascertained assignment bankruptcy bill of lading Bovet Building Authority cargo Carlowitz CHAN charter party CHIEF JUSTICE Chinese CHUEN CHUNG claim clause Colony common law Company consignee contraband contraband of war contract conviction costs Counsel creditor damages decided decision defendant delivery document English entitled estopped estoppel evidence EXPARTE fact FAT KEE FIRM flour fraud FUNG CHUN YUEN godown warrant GUAN Hang Seng Cheong Hongkong Hongkong Land Hung Yue Bank Hupeh INSURANCE interpleader judgment jurisdiction LEUBA LEUNG liability Lord Campbell's Act Magistrate MARINE mark matter ment nuisance offence Official Receiver opinion opium Ordinance Osaka Shosen Kaisha owners person plaintiff pledge Pollock possession principle PROME Prometheus provisions question reason referred risk rule s.s. Brand secured creditor ship shipowner SHUN KOO Slade Solicitors statute STEAMSHIP tion trade trustee ULLMANN vessel Woodley words
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Page 230 - Be it therefore enacted, 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 109 - Every consignee of goods named in a bill of lading, and every indorsee of a bill of lading to whom the property in the goods therein mentioned shall pass, upon or by reason of such consignment or indorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all rights of suit, and be subject to the same liabilities in respect of such goods as if the contract contained in the bill of lading had been made with himself.
Page 77 - ... (1) Where there is a contract for the sale of specific or ascertained goods the property in them is transferred to the buyer at such .time as the parties to the contract intend it to be transferred. (2) For the purpose of ascertaining the intention of the parties regard shall be had to the terms of the contract, the conduct of the parties, and the circumstances of the case.
Page 77 - Where there is a contract to sell unascertained goods no property in the goods is transferred to the buyer unless and until the goods are ascertained, but property in an undivided share of ascertained goods may be transferred as provided in section 6.
Page 211 - In my opinion a law may be established and become international, that is to say binding upon all nations, by the agreement of such nations to be bound thereby, although it may be impossible to enforce obedience thereto by any given nation party to the agreement. The resistance of a nation to a law to which it has agreed does not derogate from the authority of the law because that resistance cannot, perhaps, be overcome. Such resistance merely makes the resisting nation a breaker of the law to which...
Page 230 - A totally new action is given against the person who would have been responsible to the deceased if the deceased had lived — an action which . . is new in its species, new in its quality, new in its principle, in every way new, and which can only be brought if there is any person answering the description of the widow, parent, or child, who under such circumstances, suffers pecuniary loss.
Page 230 - It appears to me, under all the circumstances, and looking at the subject matter, more reasonable to hold that Parliament did intend to confer the benefit of this legislation upon foreigners as well as upon subjects, and certainly that, as against an English wrongdoer, the foreigner has a right to maintain his action under the statutes in question.
Page 225 - means a person holding a mortgage charge or lien on the property of the debtor, or any part thereof, as a security for a debt due to him from the debtor.
Page 37 - He is protected in doing so upon the principle just stated, that when one of two innocent persons must suffer from the fraud of a third, he shall suffer, who, by his indiscretion, has enabled such third person to commit the fraud.
Page 206 - Declaration" shall not enter into any arrangement in regard to the application of the right of neutrals in time of war, which does not at the same time rest on the four principles which are the object of said „Declaration.