The Scottish Law Reporter: Containing Reports ... of Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary, Court of Teinds, and House of Lords, Volume 22

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W. & R.A. Veitch, 1885 - Law reports, digests, etc
 

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Page 72 - such debts or sums be payable, by virtue of some written instrument, at a certain time; or if payable otherwise, then from the time when demand of payment shall have been made in writing, so as such demand shall give notice to the debtor that interest will be claimed from the date of such demand.
Page 109 - The Sheriff may at any time amend any error or defect in the record in any action, upon such terms as to expenses and otherwise as to the Sheriff shall seem proper, and all such amendments as may be necessary for the purpose of determining in the action the real question in controversy between
Page 84 - if two ships under steam are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the ship which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way of the other ;
Page 245 - every present and past member of such company shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company to an amount sufficient for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company, and the costs, charges, and expenses of the winding-up, and for the payment of such sums as may be required for the adjustment of the rights of the
Page 246 - and liabilities provable, and as to the valuation of annuities, and future and contingent liabilities respectively, as may be in force for the time being under the law of bankruptcy with respect to the estates of persons adjudged bankrupt.
Page 286 - the United Kingdom, shall, except in criminal proceedings, be pleaded or given in evidence, or admitted to be good, useful, or available in law or equity, unless it is duly stamped in accordance with the law in force at the time when it was first executed.
Page 245 - may from time to time become members of the company, shall thereupon be a body corporate by the name contained in the memorandum of association, capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of an incorporated company, and having perpetual succession and a common seal, with
Page 111 - An action for the recovery under this Act of compensation for an injury shall not be maintainable unless notice that injury has been sustained is given within six weeks . . . from the occurrence of the accident causing the injury.
Page 269 - provides :—" Where any company is being wound up by the Court or subject to the supervision of the Court, any attachment, séquestration, distress, or execution put in force against the estate or effects of the company after the commencement of the
Page 86 - notwithstanding anything contained in any preceding article every ship, whether a sailing ship or a steam-ship, overtaking any other shall keep out of the way of the overtaken ship.

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