...qualified by the particular facts of the case in which such expressions are to be found;" and again, " A case is only an authority for what it actually decides. I entirely deny than it can be quoted for a proposition that may seem to follow logically from it. Such a mode of reasoning...

...qualified by the particular facts of the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a case is only an authority for what it actually decides....acknowledge that the law is not always logical at all." There are, it is true, certain and, happily, very exceptional cases where an order of a Court of original...

...qualified by the particular facts of the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a case is only an authority for what it actually decides....acknowledge that the law is not always logical at all. My Lords, I think the application of these two propositions renders the decision of this case perfectly...

...such a result cannot be taken for granted. " I entirely deny," said Lord Halsbury, 1 "that [a case] can be quoted for a proposition that may seem to follow...acknowledge that the law is not always logical at all." This frank admission that case law is not invariably a chain of logical inferences is applicable to...

...the particular facts of the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a caae is only an authority for what it actually decides....acknowledge that the law is not always logical at all. I think that the application of these two propositions renders the decision of this case perfectly...

...case against 1 In Quinn v. Leathern [1901] AC at p. 506, the Lord Chancellor is reported aa saying ' a case is only an authority for what it actually decides. I entirely denythat it can be quoted for a proposition that may seem to follow logically from it.' the prisoner...

...(Quinn v. Leathern, [1901] AC at p. 506): "A case is only an authority for what it actually decide?. I entirely deny that it can be quoted for a proposition...acknowledge that the law is not always logical at all." Lord Mansfield, in giving his judgment (in Jones v. Eandall), said: "If the present wager had been...

...of these considerations, the following passage in the Chancellor's judgment seems particularly apt. 'A case is only an authority for what it actually...it can be quoted for a proposition that may seem to logically follow from it. Such a mode of reasoning assumes that the law is necessarily a logical code;...

...particular facts of the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a case is only authority for what it actually decides. I entirely...proposition that may seem to follow logically from it." In the present case the Eeferee rightly determined that effect should not be given to the engineer's...

...particular facts of the case in which such expressions are to be found. The other is that a case is only authority for what it actually decides. I entirely...proposition that may seem to follow logically from it." l And again:—" Occasional observations made by a learned Judge upon the subject of the facts in a...