Taylor V Sternberg - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lottery
lottery a game of chance a distribution of prizes by lot or chance taylor v smetten 1883 11 qbd 207 by 10 11 wm 3 c 17 chitty s statutes tit games all
Impossibility
expressly provided for in the contract the event is now called frustration of the contract or adventure see taylor v caldwell 1863 3 b s 326 where the defendant was held excused from payment of damages for non
Landlord and tenant
take it for the effect of the exception for reasonable wear and tear in covenants to repair see taylor v webb supra and times newspaper 6th february 1937 c a disapproving dicta in haskell v marlow 1928 2
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Constructive notice
documentary absence of title deeds or the possession of a tenant gives notice of the tenant s interest taylor v stibbert 1794 2 ves 437 but not necessarily of an adverse claim to the reversion see barnhart v
Res perit domino
res perit domino the loss falls on the owner for illustrations of this maxim see taylor v caldwell 1863 32 lj qb 164 krell v henry 1903 2 kb 740 contract for sale and sale
Verba chartarum fortius accipiuntur contra proferentem
styles this a rule drawn out of the depth of reason but in 1877 jessel m r in taylor v st helen s corporation 6 ch d at p 280 citing three house of lords cases did not
Deep Rock doctrine
corporation found to have been used for fraudulent transfers to its parent corporation in the supreme court case taylor v standard gas and electric co deep rock 306 u s 307 1939 a doctrine holding that the claim
In pari delicto potior est conditio possidentis
law will take notice of an illegal transaction to defeat a suit not to maintain one thus in taylor v chester 1869 lr 4 qb 309 the plaintiff failed to recover the half of a 50l note deposited
Per month
vested is not subsequently lost or divested by the service giver s desertion or abandonment of his contract taylor v laird 25 lj ex 329 stroud
Quantity surveyor
architect for the purpose of enabling builders to calculate the amount for which they would execute the plans taylor v hall 4 ir cl 476 see hudson on building contracts
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