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Fie! gesture of disapproval "STOLE is not a pretty word actionable, sir DANgerously actionable a question of the watch-house, and, if I might be permitted to say a bit of COLD lead Perhaps you will allow me to suggest the word 'maNIPulated, sir the money the bank maNIPulated from your confiding and inexperienced uncle that is safer and it is equally EXpressive. He! He!"
But when we go back, Bill, and I realize that Isabel Wallace may come in and find me pressing my window curtains, or that we honestly can't afford to send someone a handsome wedding present, I'll begin to be afraid. I know that now and then I'll find myself investing in finger-bowls or salted almonds, just because other people do." "Well, that's not actionable for divorce, woman!"
'The formal process shall be turned to sport, And you dismissed with honour by the Court. FRANCIS. Horace, Satires, ii.i.86. Mr. Robertson altered this word to jocandi, he having found in Blackstone that to irritate is actionable. Quoted by Johnson, ante, ii. l97. His god-daughter. See post May 10, 1784. See post, under Dec. 20, 1782 See ante, i. 155
There were in the treasury 17,410 Roman pounds of gold, 22,070 pounds of uncoined, and 18,230 pounds of coined, silver. The legal ratio of gold to silver was: 1 pound of gold = 4000 sesterces, or 1: 11.91. On this was based the actionable character of contracts of buying, hiring, and partnership, and, in general, the whole system of non-formal actionable contracts.
Brett. "Actionable, I call it. You had no right to make away with those papers, sir. However, it may be possible to repair the loss. They were not all there." "I will not have it," said Dino, decisively. "Nothing more shall be done. I waive my claims entirely. Brian and Miss Murray can settle the rest." And then the party broke up. Mr.
This might not be considered actionable damage. 'We'll see that! 'Indeed, don't you agree with me, Mr.
"It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal constraint."
Launcelot Sandal married Ducie Latrigg; they had one son, Stephen Sandal, otherwise known as Stephen Latrigg: proofs all ready, sir, not a link missing, Mr. Sandal. When will you vacate? The squire is inclined to be easy with you, and not to back-reckon, unless you force him to do so." "This is a conspiracy, Moser." "Conspiracy! Eh? Ugly word, Mr. Sandal. An actionable word, I may say."
Aunt Ruth looked up from her spinning-wheel in a way that had become an alarm signal. Eli Kirke glanced dubiously to the blasphemy box, as though my words were actionable. There was no sound but the drone of the loom till I slipped from the room. Then they both began to talk. Soon after came transfer from the counting-house to the fur trade.
So that a stipulation for conveyance to Titius, but made by some one else, is void: but the addition of a penalty, in the form 'If you do not convey, do you promise to pay me so many aurei? makes it good and actionable. 20 But where the promisor stipulates in favour of a third person, having himself an interest in the performance of the promise, the stipulation is good.
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