Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and Also in the Justiciary and House of LordsT. & T. Clark, 1917 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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accident accordingly action amount appears application arbitrator Argued Assessor authority averments Caledonian Railway certificate charge circumstances claim clause Company compensation complaint conclusion contract Court of Session creditor death decision declared decree deed defenders dividend Division domiciled duplicand duty employment entitled evidence expressed fact favour feu-duty Glasgow granted ground heirs held hold inter interlocutor issue judgment June jurisdiction Land Court lease liable Lord Dundas Lord Guthrie Lord Johnston Lord Justice-Clerk Lord Ordinary Lord President Lord Salvesen Lordship Macph marriage marriage-contract Martinmas ment North British Railway opinion owner payable payment person present proceedings pronounced proof provisions pursuer question Railway reason referred regard rent residence respect respondent Scotland second party Sheriff Sheriff-substitute Small Landholders Scotland statute statutory Summary Jurisdiction Scotland tenant testator tion Trustees ultra vires valuation Valuation-roll Vict Whitsunday words workman
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Page 531 - Unless a different intention appears, the following are rules for ascertaining the intention of the parties as to the time at which the property in the goods is to pass to the buyer.
Page 15 - ... fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.
Page 11 - ... dividends. or for any other purpose to which the profits of the company may be properly applied, and pending such application may, at the like discretion, either be employed in the business of the company or be invested in such investments (other than shares of the company) as the directors may from time to time think fit.
Page 259 - ... in the case of partial incapacity the weekly payment shall in no case exceed the difference between the amount of the average weekly earnings of the workman before the accident and the average weekly amount which he is earning or is able to earn in some suitable employment or business after the accident...
Page 511 - ... for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted...
Page 266 - The arbitrator may at any stage of the proceedings, and shall if so directed by the...
Page 406 - The questions of law for the opinion of the Court were: — "(1) Was I...
Page 470 - Not-payment of the same, and that at Two Terms in the Year, Whitsunday and Martinmas, by equal Portions...
Page 37 - It is not enough for the applicant to say 'The accident would not have happened if I had not been engaged in that employment or if I had not been in that particular place.' He must go further and must say 'The accident arose because of something I was doing in the course of my employment or because I was exposed by the nature of my employment to some peculiar danger.
Page 3 - shop " includes any premises where any retail trade or business is carried on...