The Law Relating to Transactions on the Stock Exchange |
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Act of Parliament aforesaid alleged amount annuities appear assumpsit averred Bank of England Bank stock bankrupt bargain Barrister at Law bond broker cent certificates Change Alley clause consideration contract or agreement Court of Chancery courts of equity covenant creditor declaration defendant delivered distringas dividends enacted entitled Exchequer bills executors Faikney funds given Governor and Company held holder ibid illegal interest jobber joint stock judgment judgment debtor liable loan London Lord Eldon ment moiety thereof money paid name or names party payable payment penalties person or persons plaintiff plea pleaded power of attorney practice principal prohibited public or joint public securities purchase received recover refused registered respect Reynous rule scrip sell shew sold South-Sea statute Statute of Frauds Stock Exchange stock-broker stock-jobbing Three-per-cent tion transactions transfer of stock transfer stock trustees usurious Vict void wager whatsoever writ
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Page 111 - If a day be appointed for payment of money, or part of it, or for doing any other act, and the day is to happen, or may happen, before the thing which is the consideration of the money, or other act...
Page 154 - Nota, every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so but only inflicts a penalty on the offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition though there are no prohibitory words in the statute
Page 243 - ... shall be entitled to a proportion of such rents, annuities, pensions, dividends, and other payments, according to the time which shall have elapsed from the commencement or last period of payment thereof respectively (as the case may be) including the day of the death of such person, or of the determination of his or her interest...
Page 182 - whether a demand connected with an illegal transaction is capable of being enforced at law, is whether the plaintiff requires the aid of the illegal transaction to establish his case. If the plaintiff cannot open his case without showing that he has broken the law, the court will not assist him, whatever his claim in justice may be upon the defendant.
Page 80 - Name in his own Right, or in the Name of any Person in Trust for him...
Page 124 - Parties be absent, by his, her or their Attorney or Attornies, thereunto lawfully authorized, by Writing under his, her or their Hands and Seals, to be attested by Two or more credible Witnesses...
Page 148 - ... forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds, to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record...
Page 111 - But 2d, when a day is appointed for the payment of money, &c., and the day is to happen after the thing which is the consideration of the money, &c. is to be performed, no action can be maintained for the money, &c. before performance.
Page 194 - ... to the use of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall inform or sue for the same...