A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts, Volume 1Harvard Law Review, 1910 - Torts |
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Accord action of trespass action of trover alleged appears arrest assault and battery authority Barb Bayley broker charge chattel committed common law COMMON PLEAS conversion count court is given damages declaration defendant defendant's delivered detained detinue enter entitled entry evidence facts felony force ground guilty held HILARY TERM horse imprisonment indictment injury intention judgment jury Justice justify KING'S BENCH land learned judge liable libel Lord LORD DENMAN LORD ELLENBOROUGH Lord Mansfield malice malicious prosecution Mass MICHAELMAS TERM Micholls negligence NISI PRIUS nonsuit nuisance officer opinion party peace person plaintiff plaintiff in error pleaded possession present privileged probable cause proceedings prosecution proved Queen's Bench question reason recover refused remove replevin Reported rule semble servant slander Smith statement statute SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT tion tort trespasser ab initio trial verdict Wend words writ wrong wrongfully
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Page 810 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labour as he wills.
Page 433 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 863 - In solving doubts, the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas [use your own property in such a manner as not to injure that of another...
Page 89 - A rule was obtained calling on the defendants to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
Page 809 - An Act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
Page 246 - ... accompanied with a special designation of the persons or objects of search, arrest, or seizure; and no warrant ought to be issued but in cases, and with the formalities prescribed by the laws.
Page 488 - That the power of publishing such of its reports, votes, and proceedings as it shall deem necessary or conducive to the public interests is an essential incident to the constitutional functions of parliament, more especially of this house as the representative portion of it.
Page 629 - ... written consent first obtained as above provided may maintain an equitable action in the supreme court of this state against the person, firm or corporation so using his name, portrait or picture, to prevent and restrain the use thereof; and may also sue and recover damages for any injuries sustained by reason of such use and if the defendant shall have knowingly used such person's name, portrait or picture in such manner as is forbidden or declared to be unlawful by the last section, the jury,...
Page 554 - The proper meaning of a privileged communication is only this; that the occasion on which the communication was made rebuts the inference prima facie arising from a statement prejudicial to the character of the plaintiff, and puts it upon him to prove that there was malice in fact ; that the defendant was actuated by motives of personal spite or ill will, independent of the occasion on which the communication was made.
Page 293 - Any asportation of a chattel for the use of the defendant, or a third person, amounts to a conversion; for this simple reason, that it is an act inconsistent with the general right of dominion which the owner of the chattel has in it, who is entitled to the use of it at all times and in all places.