Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in England and America, Том 1Little, Brown, 1877 |
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Страница 738 - ... unless the agreement, upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Страница 15 - 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.
Страница 302 - ... satisfy the court, by the circumstances, that some advantage was taken of the confidential relation in which the alderman stood. If the alderman stood towards the admiral in any of the known relations of guardian and ward, attorney and client, trustee and cestui que trust, &c., then in order to support the deed he ought to show that no such advantage was taken; that all was fair; that he received the bounty freely and knowingly on the giver's part, and as a stranger might have done.
Страница 614 - ... of the funds for another debt, the latter has a right, in equity, to compel the former to resort to the other fund, in the first instance, for satisfaction...
Страница 22 - ... to restrain the assertion of doubtful rights in a manner productive of irreparable damage; (7.) to prevent injury to a third person by the doubtful title of others ; and (8.) to put a bound to vexatious and oppressive litigation, and to prevent multiplicity of suits.
Страница 470 - ... or on the determination by any other means whatsoever of the interest of any such person, he or she, and his or her executors, administrators or assigns, shall be entitled to a proportion of such rents...
Страница 198 - A seller is unquestionably liable to an action of deceit, if he fraudulently represent the quality of the thing sold to be other than it is, in some particulars, which the buyer has not equal means with himself of knowing ; or if he do so in such a manner as to induce the buyer to forbear making the inquiries, which, for his own security and advantage, he would otherwise have made.
Страница 232 - The doctrine, therefore, may be laid down, as generally true, that the acts and contracts of persons who are of weak understandings, and who are thereby liable to imposition, will be held void in Courts of Equity, if the nature of the act or contract justify the conclusion that the party has not exercised a deliberate judgment, but that he has been imposed upon, circumvented, or overcome, by cunning, or artifice, or undue influence.
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