The Common Law eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Common Law.

The Common Law eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 446 pages of information about The Common Law.

316/1 Brown v.  Foster, 113 Mass. 136.

316/2 Leake, Dig.  Contr. 13, 14, 637; Hunt v.  Livermore, 5 Pick. 395, 397; Langd.  Contr. (2d ed.), Section 36.

316/3 Leake, Dig.  Contr. 638; Braunstein v.  Accidental Death Ins.  Co., 1 B. & S. 782.

316/4 But cf.  Langd.  Contr. (2d ed.), Section 29.

318/1 Langd.  Contr. (2d ed.), Section 29.

318/2 Bullen & Leake, Prec. of Plead. (3d ed.), 147, “Conditions Precedent.”

319/1 Cf.  Cort v.  Ambergate, Nottingham & Boston & Eastern Junction Railway Co., 17 Q.B.127.

320/1 Goodman v.  Pocock, 15 Q.B.576 (1850).

325/1 Fisher v.  Mellen, 103 Mass. 503.

325/2 Supra, p. 136.

327/1 Langd.  Contr. (2d ed.), Section 33.

328/1 See the explanation of Dimech v.  Corlett, 12 Moo.  P.C. 199, in Behn v.  Burness, 3 B. & S. 751, 760.

329/1 Behn v.  Burness, 3 B. & S. 751.

329/2 Langd.  Contr. (2d ed.), Section 28, p. 1000.

329/3 See Lecture VIII.

330/1 Kennedy v.  Panama, &c.  Mail Co., L.R. 2 Q.B.580, 588; Lyon v.  Bertram, 20 How. 149, 153.  Cf.  Windscheid, Pand., Section 76, nn. 6, 9.

330/2 Windscheid, Pand., Section 76(4).  See, generally, Ibid., nn. 6, 7; Section 78, pp. 206, 207; Section 82, pp. 216 et seq.

331/1 Cr.  Ihering, Geist d.  Roem.  Rechts, Section 48, III. p. 116 (Fr. transl.).

331/2 See, however, the language of Crompton, J. in S.C., I B. & S. 877.  Cf.  Kent, Comm. (12th ed.), 479, n. 1, A (c).

331/3 Behn v.  Burness, 3 B. & S. 751, 755, 756.

334/1 Cf.  Anglo-Egyptian Navigation Co. v.  Rennie, L.R. 10 C.P. 271.

334/2 Ellen v.  Topp, 6 Exch. 424.

335/1 Contracts (2d Ed.), Section 106, and passim.

336/1 Chanter v.  Hopkins, 4 M. & W. 399, 404.  Possibly Behn v.  Burness, stated above, might have been dealt with in this way.  The ship tendered was not a ship which had been in the port of Amsterdam at the date of the contract.  It was therefore not such a ship as the contract called for.

336/2 Heyworth v.  Hutchinson, L.R. 2 Q.B.447, criticised in Benj.  Sales (2d ed.), pp. 742 et seq.

336/3 See Thomas v.  Cadwallader, Willes, 496; Langd.  Contr. (2d ed.), Sections 116, 140.  This is put as a case of equivalence by Mr. Langdell (Contr., Section 116); but the above explanation is believed to be the true one.  It will be noticed that this is hardly a true case of condition, but merely a limitation of the scope of the tenant’s promise.  So a covenant to serve as apprentice in a trade, which the other party covenants to teach, can only be performed if the other will teach, and must therefore be limited to that event.  Cf.  Ellen v.  Topp, 6 Exch. 424.

337/1 Langdell, Contracts (2d ed.), Section 127.  Cf.  Roberts v.  Brett, 11 H. L. C. 337.

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