Cases on Engineering Contracts: A Selection of Cases from Cases on the Law of ContractsLittle, Brown,, 1904 - 352 sidor |
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Sida 639 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Sida 641 - ... 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.
Sida 707 - COOMBE v. GREENE. In TIIK EXCHEQUEB, MAY 8, 1843 \li,;*e.tr.d in 11 Mffitm $• WtUby, 480.) COVENANT. The declaration stated, that theretofore, to wit, on the 23d of April, 1832, by a certain indenture then made between the plaintiff...
Sida 683 - A warranty is an express or implied statement of something which a party undertakes shall be a part of a contract, and, though part of the contract, collateral to the express object of it.
Sida 683 - Within five years, an action upon a judgment or decree of any court of the United States, or of any state or territory within the United States. Within four years, an action upon any contract, obligation, or liability founded upon an instrument of writing, except those mentioned in the preceding section.
Sida 495 - ... the plaintiffs ought not to be bound till after they had received the notification that the defendants had received their answer and assented to it; and so it might go on ad infinitum. The defendants must be considered in law as making. during every instant of the time their letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiffs, and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter.
Sida 683 - All persons having an interest in the subject of the action and in obtaining the relief demanded...
Sida 540 - I should prefer to state the rule thus: Where the circumstances are such that it must have been within the contemplation of the parties that, according to the ordinary usages of mankind, the post might be used as a means of communicating the acceptance of an offer, the acceptance is complete as soon as it is posted.
Sida 588 - that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater cannot be any satisfaction for the whole, because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum...
Sida 683 - Appeal from a judgment of the general term of the Superior Court of the City of New York, entered upon an order made June 8, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee.