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Negligence

Railway v. Loach, (1916) 1 AC 719; and see VOLENTI NONFIT INJURIA. Consult Beven on Negligence and Smith's Leading Cases, sub tit, Coggs v. Bernard. Negligence is absence of reasonable or prudent care which a reasonable person is

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case

in an action land·mark case : a case that marks a significant turning point on a particular issue lead·ing case : a case so well reasoned and important in the rules of law determined and in the … questions of law test case 1 : a representative case whose outcome will serve as precedent for future cases and esp. for pending cases involving similar or related issues or circumstances and often some of the same

Damages

seduction, false imprisonment breach of promise of marriage. See Hadley v. Baxendale, (1854) 32 LJ Ex 179; Smith's Leading Cases, vol. Ii and the notes thereto; and Argentino, 14 App Cas 519; 13 PD 191; and s. 51,

Distress

v. Freeman, (1910) 2 KB 84; and for statutes and general law relating to the subject see Smith's Leading Cases, sub tit. Simpson v. Hartopp; Oldham and foster's Law of Distress; Woodfall's L. and T.; Foa, Landlord and

Quantum meruit

a quantum meruit, see also Cutter v. Powell, 6 TR 320; 3 RR 185; and notes in Smith's Leading Cases thereunder. See also Cutler v. Powell, 6 TR 320 3 RR 185 A claim on a quantum meruit

Ruling cases

Ruling cases, cases having much the same character and effect as Leading Cases (see that title).

Metals, dealers in old

Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), by which any dealer in old metals who purchases any lead, copper, brass, tin, pewter, or German-silver in any quantity at one time less than 112 lb. in the … copper, brass, tin, pewter, or German-silver in any quantity at one time less than 112 lb. in the case of lead, or than 56 lb. in the case of the other metals above mentioned, is guilty of

Family

or husband, as the case may be, of such individual and their unmarried minor children, will not necessarily lead to concentration of wealth in the hands of a few persons or families. Such is not the intendment, … 7th Edn., p. 620. In relation to an occupier, means the individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual, and their children, brother or sister of such individual. [Child Labour (Prohibition and

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