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Time
reached, on the ground that the stipulation for time to consider is void for want of consideration: see Cooke v. Oxley, (1790) 3 TR 653; 1 RR 783, and the many cases iin which it has been
Sheep-heaves
Sheep-heaves. 'Small plots of pasture often in the middle of a waste . . . the soil of which may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is certainly a private property, and...
Rem, Judgment in
goods by a competent tribunal, Geyer v. Aquilar, 7 TR 696; and as to highways, Wakefield Corporation v. Cooke, 1904 AC 31. See The Duchess of Kingston's case, and notes thereto, 2 Sm. L.C.
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Potwallers, or Potwallopers
Potwallers, or Potwallopers, persons who cooked their own food, and were on that account in some boroughs entitled to vote for Members of Parliament.
Negligence
of negligence will render a person liable for injury to infants than in the case of adults, see Cooke v. Midland Great Western Railway, 1909 AC 229; and Glasgow Corporation v. Taylor, (1922) 1 AC 44. There
Inclosure
includes inclosing a garden by walls; see Re Earl of Dunraven's Settled Estates, (1907) 2 Ch 417. See Cooke on Inclosures, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Inclosure'; and COMMONS.
Caveat viator
of a public nuisance towards the person injured, Barnes v. Ward, (1850) 9 CB 392; and see also Cooke vs. Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, 1909 AC 229, and cases there cited.
Gas
prescribed illumi-nating standard. Later, when the incandescent mantle came into use and also the use of gas for cooking and heating increased, a prescribed calorific standard superseded the illuminating standard, as the latter had become of subsidiary
Frauds, Statute of
if in writing, would be such as the Court would direct to be specifically performed, see McManus v. Cooke, (1887) 35 CD 681. The 17th, or, as numbered in the Revised Statutes, the 16th, s. provided that
Exchange, Deed of
for any other land within the parish in which the land to be inclosed shall be situate. Consult Cooke on Inclosures. The Settled Land Act, 1925, ss. 38 and 40, replacing the S.L. Act, 1882 (45 &
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