 But it is impossible to say a man is precluded from questioning or contradicting anything any person has asserted as to him, as to his conduct or his agreement, merely because that person has been an agent of his. If any fact, material to the interest...  A Treatise on the Law of Evidence - Page 78by Samuel March Phillipps - 1815 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1827 - 662 pages
...therefore could not be evidence of the existence of the fact. [ • 128 ] The admission of an agent cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal....precluded from questioning or contradicting any thing any person has asserted as to him, as to his conduct or his agreement, merely because that person has... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1827 - 824 pages
...says on these occasions is more likely to be true than what he says on other occasions: it is, that " it is impossible to say a man is precluded from questioning...agreement, merely because that person has been an agent:" and as it would be unjust to preclude him from contradicting it, it is not permitted so much as to... | |
 | John Bayly Moore, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - 1833 - 830 pages
...Rolls (Sir William Grant), in the case of Fairlte r. Hastings (g) : " The admission of an agent cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal....precluded from questioning or contradicting any thing any person has asserted as to him, as to his conduct or his agreement, merely because that person has... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1840 - 330 pages
...sayg on these occasions is more likely to be true than what he says on other occasions : it is, that " it is impossible to say a man is precluded from questioning or contradicting anything that any person may have asserted, as to his conduct or agreement, merely because that person... | |
 | Francis Vesey, Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1844 - 478 pages
...and therefore could not be evidence of the existence of the fact. The admission of an agent cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal....precluded from questioning or contradicting any thing any person has asserted as to him, as to his conduct or his agreement, merely because that person has... | |
 | William Paley - 1847 - 732 pages
...business in which the person making that assertion was employed as agent. The admission of an agent cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal....precluded from questioning or contradicting any thing any person has asserted as to him, as to his conduct or his agreement, merely because that person has... | |
 | Richard Newcombe Gresley - 1847 - 744 pages
...to a stranger, and not in the business ; Allen v. Denstone, 8 C. & P. 760.] sion of an infant cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal. A party is bound by his own admission, and is not —• partypermitted to contradict it. (a) But it is impossible to say, a man is precluded from questioning... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 pages
...which the person making that assertion was employed as agent. * * * The admission of an agent cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal....man is precluded from questioning or contradicting anything any person has asserted as to him, respecting his conduct or his agreement, merely because... | |
 | Edmund Chisholm-Batten - 1849 - 472 pages
...had it, the ground for decreeing a specific performance fails" (d). The admission of an agent cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal....precluded from questioning or contradicting any thing any person has asserted as to him, as to his conduct or his agreement, merely because that person has... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1854 - 694 pages
...William Grant,) in the case of Fairlie v. Hastings, 10 Ves. 127 : " The admission of an agent cannot be assimilated to the admission of the principal....precluded from questioning or contradicting any thing any person has asserted as to him, as to his conduct or his agreement, merely because that person has... | |
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