The State Reports, New South Wales, Volume 24

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Law Book Company of Australasia, 1924
 

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Page 54 - Court, from any other judgment of the Court, whether final or interlocutory, if, in the opinion of the Court, the question involved in the Appeal is one which, by reason of its great general or public importance, or otherwise, ought to be submitted to His Majesty in Council for decision.
Page 83 - We may lay it down as a broad general principle that wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the acts of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it
Page 657 - ... person has been convicted of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
Page 54 - Court, where the matter in dispute on the Appeal amounts to or is of the value of Four thousand dollars ($4,000) or upwards, or where the Appeal involves, directly or indirectly, some claim or question to or respecting property or some civil right...
Page 59 - It has long been established as a positive rule of English criminal law, that no statement by an accused is admissible in evidence against him unless it is shewn by the prosecution to have been a voluntary statement, in the sense that it has not been obtained from him either by fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority.
Page 296 - ... shall be taken to signify any person usually employed by the landlord in the letting of the premises or in the collection of the rents thereof, or specially authorized to act in the particular matter by writing under the hand of such landlord.
Page 591 - Parol evidence is always necessary to show that the party sued is the person making the contract and bound by it. Whether he does so in his own name, or in that of another, or in a feigned name, and whether the contract be signed by his own hand, or by that of an agent, are inquiries not different in their nature from the question who is the person who has just ordered goods in a shop.
Page 661 - We have come to the conclusion that there was evidence on which the jury were entitled to find that the appellant's partner was murdered and that the appellant was the murderer, and accordingly this appeal is dismissed.
Page 33 - The return to this writ showed that the respondents had levied a tax sufficient to pay off the relator's judgment, but did not show that the same had been collected or paid over. Thereupon, on motion of relator, a rule was issued requiring the respondents to show cause why they should not be committed for contempt in not obeying the writ. In answer to this rule the respondents say: "That, as commanded by the peremptory writ of...
Page 27 - The justice of this rule is obvious. If the facts are stated separately and the comment appears as an inference drawn from those facts, any injustice that it might do will be to some extent negatived by the reader seeing the grounds upon which the unfavorable inference is based.

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