 | George Jeremy - 1828 - 738 էջ
...in the sense to which that term is here applied, to be an occurrence in relation to a contract which was not anticipated by the parties when the same was...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the others in a court of law. Mistake may, perhaps, in the same sense, be said to be that result of... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1839 - 658 էջ
...accident, in the sense used in a Court of Equity, to be " an occurrence in relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties when the same was...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other in a Court of Law." Jeremy on Eq. Jurisd. B. 3, Pt. 2, p. 358. Accidents, in the sense of... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1843 - 752 էջ
...Jeremy defines it as used in courts of equity, to be " an occurrence in relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties, when the same...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other in a court of law." Jer. on Eq. 358. This definition is objected to, because as accidents... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1846 - 376 էջ
...an occurrence in relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties, when the same wag entered into, and which gives an undue advantage to one of them, over the other, in 4 Court of Law." Judge Story points out the inaccuracy of this definition, in confining... | |
 | Robert Henley Eden Baron Henley - 1852 - 680 էջ
...equity. Mr. Jeremy (Eq. Juris, p. 358) defines it to be an occurrence in relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties, when the same...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other, in a court of law." It may, however, be remarked, that accidents in the sense of a court... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1853 - 538 էջ
...Jeremy defines it, as used in courts of equity, to be " an occurrence in relation to a contract which was not anticipated by the parties, when the same...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other in a court of law." — Jer. on Eq., 358. This definition is objected to, because, as accidents... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1854 - 600 էջ
...Jeremy, embraces this very case ; he defines it to be " an occurrence in relation to a contract which was not anticipated by the parties, when the same...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other in a court of " law." And the exception, taken to this definition by Mr. Justice Story, is... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1871 - 652 էջ
...Accident, in the sense of a court of equity, is defined as " an occurrence in relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties when the same was...entered into, and which gives an undue advantage to one over the other in a court of law." Jeremy's Eq. Jur. B. 3, pt. 2, Introduc. p. 358. But, says 'Willard,... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1865 - 666 էջ
...is thus pointed out by approved writers. Accident is "an occurrence in relation to a contract, which was not anticipated by the parties, when the same...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other, in a court of law."1 Accident is "not merely inevitable casualty, or the act of Providence,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1866 - 860 էջ
...accident, in the sense used in a court of equity, to be " an occurrence in relation to a contract which was not anticipated by the parties when the same was...which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other in a court of law." Jeremy on. Eq. Jurisd. B. 3, Pt. 2, p. 858. Accidents, in the sense of... | |
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An occurrence in relation to a contract which was not anticipated by the parties when the same was entered into, and which gives an undue advantage to one of them over the other in a court of law. 
