Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 20F. Hunt, 1849 - Commerce |
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Page 291 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Page 604 - ... some note or memorandum in writing of the bargain be made and signed by the parties to be charged by such contract, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorised.
Page 666 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page 369 - That this statute shall not be construed or expounded to allow the practice of usury in point of religion or conicience.
Page 663 - ... from collecting or receiving any debt or demand, and from paying out, or in any way transferring or delivering, to any person, any money, property, or effects of the corporation, during the pendency of the action ; except by express permission of the court.
Page 189 - ... be re-appointed for the next succeeding year; and no director shall hold his office more than three years out of four, in succession; but the president may be always re-appointed.
Page 462 - The Family Shakspeare ; in which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 497 - ... to colonization and agriculture, and reflect, withal, on the means which presented themselves of A vast inland navigation, without lamenting that a country so abundantly gifted and...
Page 189 - Now, the condition of the above obligation is such, that if...
Page 506 - The special facts, upon which the contingent chance is to be computed, lie most commonly in the knowledge of the insured only: the underwriter trusts to his representation, and proceeds upon confidence that he does not keep back any circumstance...