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..... i am extremely sorry that you met with an accident to prevent your visiting me, as it would have afforded me much pleasure in seeing you. .....
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..... 4 of the said printed rates, though the same premium therein indicated was charged, but that the board, in its discretion, fixed the premium as for an extra risk, considering the frequent accidents to mills, from the circumstance of millers being in the habit of grinding all night, and if the insurers had understood the mill to have been built with wooden instead of stone gable ends, it would have been at ..... by accident, or without fraud or design on their part, as far as i know or believe, and that the damage or loss they sustained by the said fire is at least $10,000. .....
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..... nor are these allegations thus loose from mere accident or carelessness. .....
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..... " that doctrine is that the carrier is responsible for every loss which is not produced by inevitable accident. .....
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..... the plaintiff consented to take the drafts with considerable reluctance, for fear of accident, upon which townsley assured him the drafts should be honored, whether the produce to be shipped by waters arrived or not. .....
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..... 235 contrary, many persons, from design or accident, have run large quantities of land and obtained grants for the same southward of the present temporary line between the good citizens of this state and the indians, and expect to hold the same .....
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..... already been shown that gross negligence may be evidence of barratry, and when it is considered how difficult it is to decide where gross negligence ends and ordinary negligence begins, and to distinguish between pure accident and accident from negligence, we cannot but think that the british courts have adopted the safe and legal rule in deciding that where the policy covers the risk of barratry, and fire be the proximate cause, ..... that if it should believe that the fire which occasioned the ship's destruction originated from accident and without any want of due care and attention on the part of the captain or crew, and if it should further find that the captain and crew, after the discovery of the fire, might by ..... that court also refused to instruct the jury that if the fire originated from accident or without any want of due care on the part of the master and crew, and if the jury should find that by reasonable and proper exertions the vessel and cargo might have been preserved ..... design, and by the captain and crew, it is barratry; if by any other person or by pure accident, it is clearly a risk by fire, but from the peculiar character of this risk it is no easy matter to point out an accident that may not be resolved into negligence. ..... the second that if it believed the fire originated in accident, without any want of due care and attention in the captain and crew, yet, if after it had commenced, the captain and crew might with ordinary care and exertion have extinguished it, the .....
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..... where there was no intention to evade the law and the facts which amount to usury, whether they appear upon the face of the contract or by other proof, can be shown to have been the result of mistake or accident, no penalty attaches. ..... where there was no intention to evade the law and the facts which amount to usury, whether they appear upon the face of the contract or by other proof, can be shown to have been the result of mistake or accident, no penalty attaches. .....
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..... . whether he seeks to recover a debt or asks the specific execution of a contract or to avoid a contract on the ground of fraud or accident, the mode of proceeding is the same; he files his petition and the defendant must answer .....
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..... for instance, should any accident happen to you, where would be the money to pay your drafts which are now on us and are accepted? .....
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