Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Том 41

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D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1875
Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia.
 

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Сторінка 718 - But the rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time...
Сторінка 701 - He who receives it, has a right to consider it as his without dispute : he spends it in confidence that it is his ; and it would be most mischievous and unjust if he who has acquiesced in the right by such voluntary payment, should be at liberty, at any time within the statute of limitations, to rip up the matter and recover back the money.
Сторінка 839 - ... or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements or hereditaments or any interest in or concerning them; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Сторінка 318 - A trustee may buy from the cestui que trust, provided there is a distinct and clear contract, ascertained to be such after a jealous and scrupulous examination of all the circumstances...
Сторінка 239 - Court proceeding to render such Judgment as the " Court below ought to have rendered and given, it is " ordered, that the parties do proceed to the adduction of evi...
Сторінка 317 - this doctrine, as to purchases by trustees, assignees, and persons having a confidential character, stands much more upon general principle, than upon the circumstances of any individual case. It rests upon this, that the purchase is not permitted in any case, however honest the circumstances...
Сторінка 318 - ... that the cestui que trust intended the trustee should buy, and there is no fraud, no concealment, no advantage taken by the trustee of information acquired by him in the character of trustee.
Сторінка 317 - ... nature, one who has the power, will be too readily seized with the inclination, to use the opportunity for serving his own interest at the expense of those for whom he is entrusted.
Сторінка 97 - Salic. 319, that where a new person is to be better or worse by the execution, there must be a scire facias, because he is a stranger, to make him a party to the judgment; as in the case of an executor or administrator.
Сторінка 87 - ... but the court shall also give such judgment as the court below should have given ; for the writ of error is to revive the first cause of action, and to recover what he ought to have recovered by the first suit, wherein an erroneous judgment was given.

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