 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 862 pages
...that it was for the jury to say whether the plaintiff had taken the bill under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man ; and the jury having found for the defendant, the Court refused to set aside the verdict. Gill v. Cubitt,... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1827 - 760 pages
...for the defendant, if they thought that the plaintiff had taken the bill under circumstances •which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man : and they having found for the defendant, the court refused to disturb the verdict. . m Miller v. Race,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Thomas M'Cleland, Edward Younge - Equity - 1827 - 670 pages
...vice affecting it ; or under circumstances which, accordfag to the rule laid down in Gill v. Culritt, ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man. I think this note did come to the plaintiff under circumstances which called upon him, as a prudent... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Bills of exchange - 1829 - 532 pages
...the bill, of which there could be no doubt; and, 2dly, whether he took it under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man. If they thought that he had taken the bill under such circumstances, then, notwithstanding he had given... | |
 | Law - 1835 - 520 pages
...has been stolen or lost, it is no defence that the bill was taken by him under circumstances which ' ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man.' Nothing short of gross negligence will impeach his title. (See Backhouse v. Harrison, ante, p. 165.)—... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 746 pages
...the hands of the original party, where it appeared that he had taken it undeB. circumstances "which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man." But the doctrine of that case has been overruled in England and in the supreme court of the United... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence (Law) - 1832 - 660 pages
...for the defendant, if they thought that the plaintiff had taken the bill under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man, and the jury having found for the defendant, the court refused to disturb the verdict. Gill v. Cubitt,... | |
 | John William Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 744 pages
...Chief Justice left it to the jury whether the plaintiff had taken the bill under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man. If they thought he had, they were to find a verdict for the defendant. His lordship asked the jury... | |
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... under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man. 
