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..... the rule laid down in the books is general that the value of the vessel at the time of the accident is the true basis of calculation. ..... the rule laid down in the books is general that the value of the vessel at the time of the accident is the true basis of calculation, and if so, it necessarily follows that it must be the value at the place where the accident occurs. ..... and if so, it necessarily follows that it must be the value at the place where the accident occurs. .....
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..... and at that instant, suppose the defendants had been robbed of the cash or notes in which the bill in question had been paid, or they had been burnt or lost by accident; who would have borne the loss thus occasioned? .....
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..... were these sugars entered by a false denomination, happening by mistake or accident, and not from any intention to defraud the revenue? ..... ;, or of the court in which a prosecution for the forfeiture shall be had that such false denomination, error, or disagreement happened by mistake or accident, and not from any intention to defraud the revenue. ..... the very association of mistake and accident in this connection furnishes a strong ground to presume that the legislature had the same classes of cases in view; accident, which no prudence could foresee or guard against, and mistakes of fact, consistent with entire innocence of intention. ..... 412 by the proviso as accidents in the construction of the law. ..... there was no accident in the case; there was no mistake in point of fact; for the party knew what the article was, when he entered it. ..... for mistakes of fact, the legislature might properly indulge a benignant policy, as they certainly ought, to accidents. .....
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..... if, either through accident or mistake, the sugars were entered by a different denomination from what their quality required, a forfeiture is not incurred. ..... if either through accident or mistake the sugars were entered by a different denomination from what their quality required, a forfeiture is not incurred. .....
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..... class has a legal right to the debt claimed, or the other to the thing claimed to be purchased, such as is recognized in a court of law; the second is whether that right has been so acquired as to be attended with such circumstances of fraud, accident, mistake, trust, inadequacy of price, or unfairness as will annul or modify it in a court of chancery, according to the established principle of courts of equity. .....
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..... it gives the very effect to their acts and contracts which they intended to give, and which, from mistake or accident, has not been effected. ..... it gives the very effect to their acts and contracts which they intended to give and which, from mistake or accident, has not been effected. .....
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..... , and if found to differ from the entry, the merchandise is declared to be forfeited, unless it shall be made to appear to the collector, or to the court in which a prosecution for the forfeiture shall be had, that such difference proceeded from accident or mistake, and not from an intention to defraud the revenue. ..... , and if found to differ from the entry, the merchandise is declared to be forfeited unless it shall be made to appear to the collector, or to the court in which a prosecution for the forfeiture shall be had, that such difference proceeded from accident or mistake, and not from an intention to defraud the revenue. .....
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..... a natural boundary is more certain, in most cases, than an artificial one, and is less liable to be altered by fraud or accident. .....
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..... " in the charter party it is agreed that breedlove, bradford, and robeson should transport, unavoidable accidents excepted, a part of the seventh regiment of infantry, under the command of colonel m. ..... he cannot compel the payment of the amount claimed unless he shall procure the kind of evidence required by the contract or show that by time or accident he is unable to do so. ..... he cannot compel the payment of the amount claimed unless he shall procure the kind of evidence required by the contract or show that, by time or accident, he is unable to do so. .....
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..... illegal charges above stated, and on nonpayment they protested for damages and interest on the sum, thereby showing their intent to hold the complainant responsible for the sum demanded, if the premises should, by any accident, become insufficient in value to pay the same. .....
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