The Foundations of Legal Liability: Common-law actionsEdward Thompson Company, 1906 |
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action of account action of debt action of trespass allegation assignment bailee bailment bailor Bank bill Bing Bracton breach cause of action champerty chancery Chapter chattels chose in action Coke common common-law Conn consideration contract conversion count for money court covenant damage debtor deceit defendant distrain distrainor distress doctrine early law effect Eliz enforce English law Exch fact forms of action held indebitatus assumpsit indorsement injury Iowa Jones jurisdiction law merchant liability lord maintained Mass master ment modern nature negligence Negotiable Instruments nuisance obligation Observation origin owner party person plaintiff possession principle promise quod Raym recover remedial law rent replevin right of action Rolle Abr Roman Roman law Salk servant Smith statute Statute of Frauds Statute of Marlborough tenant Tenn theory tion tort trover unlawful Volume Western Union writ wrong
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Página 262 - Salk. 282, as a general position," that no master is chargeable with the acts of his servant but when he acts in the execution of the authority given him." Now when a servant quits sight of the object for which he is employed, and without having in view his master's orders pursues that which his own malice suggests, he no longer acts in pursuance of the authority given him, and according to the doctrine of Lord Holt his master will not be answerable for such act.
Página 43 - PERSONAL actions are such whereby a man claims a debt, or personal duty, or damages in lieu thereof: and, likewise, whereby a man claims a satisfaction in damages for some injury done to his person or property. The former are said to be founded on contracts, the latter upon torts or wrongs...
Página 85 - The law of maintenance while it existed, prohibited the transfer of the legal property in a chose in action, so as to give the assignee a right of action in his own name. But...
Página 260 - Qui facit per alium facit per se renders the master liable for all the negligent acts of the servant in the course of his employment; but that liability does not make the direct act of the servant the direct act of the master. Trespass will not lie against him: case will, in effect for employing a careless servant, but not trespass, unless, as was said by the Court in Morley v. Gaisford." the act was done
Página 275 - But where, from a given state of facts, the law raises a legal obligation to do a particular act, and there is a breach of that obligation, and a consequential damage, there, although assumpsit may be maintainable upon a promise implied by law to do the act, still an action on the case, founded in tort, is the more proper form of action...
Página 4 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Página 193 - It lies only for money which, ex aequo et bono, the defendant ought to refund: it does not lie for money paid by the plaintiff, which is claimed of him as payable in point of honour and honesty, although it could not have been recovered from him by any course of law; as in payment of a debt barred by the statute of limitations, or contracted during his infancy, or to the extent of principal and legal interest upon...
Página 70 - In such cases the action, though arising out of a wrongful act, does not die with the person. The property or the proceeds or value which, in the lifetime of the wrong-doer, could have been recovered from him, can be traced after his death to his assets and recaptured by the rightful owner there.
Página 250 - Act as an improvement, he shall be liable to an action on the case, in the nature of an action of waste, for the damage thereby occasioned, at the suit of any person entitled to any estate in remainder or reversion in such lands.
Página 193 - But it lies for money paid by mistake; or upon a consideration which happens to fail; or for money got through imposition (express or implied); or extortion; or oppression; or an undue advantage taken of the plaintiffs situation, contrary to laws made for the protection of persons under those circumstances.