Cases Relating to Railways and Canals: Argued and Adjudged in the Courts of Law and Equity : 1835 to [1854], Volumen3

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A. Maxwell, 1846

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Página 268 - ... be paid into the bank of England, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General of the high court of chancery, to be placed to his account...
Página 661 - ... directors who made such calls, or any other matter whatsoever; and the said company shall thereupon be entitled to recover what shall appear due, including interest, computed as aforesaid, on such calls, unless it shall appear that any such call exceeded 51.
Página 23 - Wheely and others, the court say, "the canal having been made under an Act of Parliament, the rights of the plaintiffs are derived entirely from that Act. This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute ; and the rule of construction, in all such cases, is now fully established to be this ; that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public, and...
Página 741 - ... be taken, and which shall be required for the purposes of such act, and with all parties having any estate or interest in such lands or by this or the special act enabled to sell and convey the same, for the absolute purchase, for a consideration in money, of any such lands, or such parts thereof as they shall think proper, and of all estates and interests in such lands of what kind soever.
Página 76 - ... separately for the sum of money to be paid for the purchase of the lands required for the works, or of any interest therein belonging to the party with whom the question of disputed compensation shall have arisen, or which, under the provisions herein contained, he is enabled to sell or convey, and for the sum of money to be paid...
Página 741 - Speed be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of...
Página 487 - This was a motion for leave to file a supplemental bill in the nature of a bill of review.
Página 689 - No action suit or information or any other proceeding of what nature soever shall be brought against any person for anything done or omitted to be done in pursuance of this Act...
Página 23 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Página 465 - On the trial or hearing of such action or suit it shall be sufficient to prove that the defendant at the time of making such call was a holder of one share or more in the undertaking, and that such call was in fact made, and such notice thereof given as is directed by this or the special act...

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