Costs: Costs in Actions Not Above £20 in Contract, and Not Above £5 in Tort in the Superior Courts : Or, how and when to Obtain a Certificate, Rule, Order, Or Suggestion for Costs, with Forms of Affidavits, &c

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W. Maxwell, 1859 - 106 Seiten
 

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Seite 96 - Provided always, that the Court shall not have cognizance of any Action of Ejectment, or in which the Title to any corporeal or incorporeal Hereditaments, or to any Toll, Fair, Market, or Franchise, shall be in question...
Seite 23 - An EXAMINATION of the TESTIMONY of the FOUR EVANGELISTS, by the Rules of Evidence administered in Courts of Justice, with an account of the TRIAL of JESUS.
Seite 87 - ... obtained shall immediately afterwards certify on the back of the record, or on the writ of trial or writ of inquiry, that the action was really brought to try a right besides the mere right to recover damages for the trespass or grievance for which the action shall have been brought, or that the trespass or grievance in respect of which the action was brought was wilful and malicious.
Seite 90 - Parliament, if the jury upon the trial of the issue in such action, or the jury that shall inquire of the damages, do find or assess the damages under forty shillings, then the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action shall have and recover only so much costs as the damages so given or assessed amount unto, without any further increase of the same; any law, statute, custom, or usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
Seite 6 - Warren's Blackstone. Blackstone's Commentaries, systematically Abridged and adapted to the existing state of the Law and Constitution, with great Additions. By SAMUEL WARREN, Esq., QC 1856. Second Edition, in post 8vo, cloth. Price 18*. Wordsworth's Law of Banking, Mining, and General Joint-Stock Companies NOT requiring express authority of Parliament. By C. WORDSWORTH. Sixth Edition. Price 15*.
Seite 93 - ... if in any action commenced after the passing of this act in any of Her Majesty's superior courts of record, the plaintiff shall recover a sum not exceeding £20 if the action is founded on contract...
Seite 91 - Durham, shall recover by the verdict of a jury less damages than 40s., mch plaintiff shall not be entitled to recover or obtain from the defendant, in respect of such verdict, any costs whatever, whether it shall be given upon any issue or issues tried, or judgment shall have passed by default...
Seite 95 - And the 13th section provides and enacts, "that, if, in any such action, whether there be a verdict in such action or not, the plaintiff shall make it appear to the satisfaction of the court in which such action was brought, or to the satisfaction of a judge at chambers, upon summons, that the said action...
Seite 94 - Trial that there was a sufficient Reason for bringing the said Action in the Court in which the said Action was brought, the Plaintiff in such Case shall have the same Judgment to recover his Costs that he would have had if this Act had not been passed.
Seite 96 - Act, and a verdict shall be found for the plaintiff for a sum less than twenty pounds, the said plaintiff shall have judgment to recover such sum only, and no costs...

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