Pollock's Practice of the County Courts: With the Decisions of the Superior Courts and Tables of Fees and Costs : Also an Appendix Containing All the Statutes, Rules of Practice and Forms, Page 776 |
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Page 56 - Any absolute assignment, by writing under the hand of the assignor (not purporting to by way of charge only), of any debt or other legal chose in action, of which express notice in writing shall have been given to the debtor, trustee, or other person from whom the assignor would have been entitled to receive or claim such debt or chose in action...
Page 764 - ... in the event of the same being wound up during the time that he is a Member, or within one year afterwards, for payment of the debts and liabilities of the...
Page 459 - Action may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence...
Page 845 - A party producing a Witness shall not be allowed to impeach his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the Witness shall in the opinion of the Judge prove adverse, contradict him by other Evidence, or by leave of the Judge prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony...
Page 76 - All persons may be joined as defendants against whom the right to any relief is alleged to exist, whether jointly, severally or in the alternative; and judgment may be given against such one or more of the defendants as may be found to be liable according to their respective liabilities, without any amendment.
Page 133 - Whenever any book or other document is of such a public nature as to be admissible in evidence on its mere production from the proper custody, and no statute exists which renders its contents provable by means of a copy, any copy thereof or extract therefrom shall be admissible...
Page 348 - the expression ' workman,' does not include a domestic or menial servant, but, save as aforesaid, means any person, who, being a labourer, servant in husbandry, journeyman, artificer, handicraftsman, miner, or otherwise engaged in manual labour...
Page 879 - ... proper, and may make such order in any particular case as it may deem just for placing the defendant on the record on the same footing in regard to costs as other parties having a common interest with him in the matters in question. " Rule 8. In all the above cases the persons who, according to the present practice of the Court, would be necessary parties to the suit...
Page 77 - Trustees, executors, and administrators may sue and be sued on behalf of or as representing the property or estate of which they are trustees or representatives, without joining any of the persons beneficially interested in the trust or estate, and shall be considered as representing such...
Page 297 - ... by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence...