 | Francis Hildyard - Insurance law - 1845 - 894 pages
...blockade before he sailed from Lockindale. The jury found he was not, and the plaintiff had a verdict. A rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground that the voyage being to a blockaded port was illegal, and th.it the notice of the blockade in the... | |
 | Andrew Amos, Joseph Ferard - Fixtures (Law) - 1847 - 444 pages
...jury, estimating the plaintiff's life at six years' purchase, gave a verdict for her, 300Z. damages. A rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground that the conservatory, though affixed to the freehold, was a matter of ornament, not beneficial to... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - Equity - 1851 - 674 pages
...defendant was bound to receive and detain. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. In the ensuing term a rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground that the learned judge had misdirected the jury in the points above stated, and also on the ground... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 766 pages
...out of the market place where meat was sold on market days. The jury having found for the plaintiffs, a rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground, first, that the learned Judge hud misdirected the jury, by stating that the right to exclude individuals from selling... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 1010 pages
...question were supplied. Upon this point, however, there was conflicting evidence, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff. A rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection ; against which Crowder and Carter shewed cause in last Hilary Term, (January 23),... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Fire insurance - 1855 - 692 pages
...made a fraudulent demand or not. The jury having found a verdict for the plaintiff with 500/. damages, a rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground that the finding of 500/. damages, instead of the whole amount sworn to by the plaintiff, amounted... | |
 | Andrew Amos, Joseph Ferard, William Hogan - Fixtures (Law) - 1855 - 364 pages
...Jur}-, estimating the plaintiff's life at six years' purchase, gave a verdict for her, £300 damages. A rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground that the conservatory, though affixed to the freehold, was a matter of ornament, not beneficial to... | |
 | Law - 1855 - 532 pages
...before Platt, В., at the last Guildl'ord assizes the plaintiff obtained a verdict with 1,500/. damages. A rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground of excessive damages and misdirection, against which Hawkins, Wordsworth, and Robinson showed cause... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1856 - 682 pages
...nor extravagant, but reasonable and temperate, damages. The jury (a common one) gave £500 damages. A rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and excessive damages ; but the rest of the Court unanimously upheld the ruling of... | |
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A verdict having been found for the defendant, a rule nisi was obtained for a new trial, on the ground that the evidence had been improperly received. 
