| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 784 pages
...right and justice, than that if a man, by his words or acts, intentionally causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces...belief, so as to alter his own previous position, he is concluded from averring to the con* trary, if injury must result to him whom he has misled. The... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 1086 pages
...the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief or to alter his own position, the former is concluded from averring against...different state of things as existing at the same time." And Lord Wensleydale, in the passage quoted by Lord Cranworth, went on to say, " Whether that rule... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 962 pages
...the leading authority, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on the belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 932 pages
...established in Pirkftrd v. Sears (8), that if a man, by his words or acts, causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act in that belief, so as to alter his own previous condition, the former is estopped from denying the... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sandford Nevile - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 762 pages
...which no specific act was even surmised. But the rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe the...different state of things as existing at the same time ; and the plaintiff in this case might have parted with his interest in the property by verbal gift... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 728 pages
...which no specific act was even surmised. But the rule of law is clear, that where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe the...different state of things as existing at the same time ; and the plaintiff in this case might have parted with his interest in the property by verbal gift... | |
| Ireland. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 646 pages
...(f) ; Stone v. Marsh (k). In Pichard v. Sears (/) Lord Denman says : — " "Where one by his " words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the...him to act on that belief so " as to alter his own position, the former is concluded from averring " against the latter a different state of things as... | |
| Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...rule of law is clear, that where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief •o as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter... | |
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