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Ubi lex non distinguit, nec nos distinguere debemus
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Ultra vires
by ratification. See also Att. Gen. v. Mersey Ry., 1907 AC 415; Baroness Wenlock v. River Dee Co., ubi supra; Sinclair v. Brougham, 1914 AC 398. Consult Brice, Street or Beattie on ultra Vires. Unauthorised; beyond scope … an ordinary person can do [Wenlock (Baroness) v. River Dee Co., (1885) 10 AC 354; British South Africa Co. v. De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., (1910) 1 Ch 354], subject to the consequences if the act is prohibited
Negligence
is also a peculiar duty to take precaution in the case of dangerous Articles, see Dominion Natural Gas Co. v. Collins, 1909 AC 640. This case should be distinguished from the principle in Fletcher v. Rylands, LR 3 … the defendant would still be under a special duty to take precautions, as held in the Dominion case, ubi supra. So also an employer is liable for an accident arising out of dangerous work, even if he
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Possibility on a possibility
contract bet-ween the party offering and the party accepting as soon as it is posted, Household Fire Insurance Co. v. Grant, (1879) 4 Ex D 216, but a revocation of an offer is of no effect until brought … cannot be limited so as to confer an estate by purchase on that person's issue, Whitby v. Mitchell, ubi sup., and the rule applies to equitable as well as to legal limitations [Re Nash, (1910) 1 Ch
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