 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1886 - 718 էջ
...the policy of the law which concludes the truth in order to prevent fraud and falsehood, and which imposes silence on a party only when in conscience and honesty he should not be allowed to speak. And in the forum of conscience is not the defendant precluded from asserting title or rights acquired... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 820 էջ
...dealt, and pledged their credit or expended their money. It is a doctrine, therefore, when properly understood and applied, that concludes the truth in...deed of January 1, 1795, to Penfield, that he was seised of an estate in fee in the premises, and whether the deed purports on its face to convey an... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1876 - 480 էջ
...dealt, and pledged their credit or expended their money. It is a doctrine, therefore, when properly understood and applied, that concludes the truth in order to prevent fraud and falsehood, VOL. IV.— 16 Opiniou of the Court — McArthur, J. and imposes silence on a party only when in conscience... | |
 | United States Court of Commissioners of - 1877 - 164 էջ
...dealt and pledged their credit or expended their money. It is a doctrine, therefore, when properly understood and applied, that concludes the truth in...conscience and honesty, he should not be allowed to speak. The doctrine as to estoppel declares the truth only in the case where its utterance would convict the... | |
 | the executive documents printed by order of the senate of the united states for the second session of the forty-fourth congress, 1876 and '77, and the special session of the senate, march, 1877 - 1877 - 1070 էջ
...dealt and pledged their credit or expended their money. It is a iloctrine, therefore, when properly understood and applied, that concludes the truth in...falsehood, and imposes silence on a party only when, iu conscience and honesty, he should not be allowed to speak. Tue doctrine as to estoppel declares... | |
 | William Wait - 1879 - 1002 էջ
...dealt and pledged their credit, or expended their money. It is a doctrine therefore, when properly understood and applied, that concludes the truth in...to prevent fraud and falsehood, and imposes silence only when the party should npt in conscience and honesty be allowed to speak. Van Rensselaer v. Kearney,... | |
 | 1885 - 1070 էջ
...the policy of the law which concludes the truth in order to prevent fraud and falsehood, and which imposes silence on a party only when in conscience and honesty he should not be allowed to speak. And in the forum of conscience is not the defendant precluded from asserting title or rights acquired... | |
 | John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman - 1885 - 858 էջ
...supreme court of the United States in Van liennxelaer v. Kearney, 11 How. 326, "it imposes silence on the party only when, in conscience and honesty, he should not be allowed to speak." And we are of the opinion that it is equally effectual at law and in chancery. By the act to which... | |
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... only in the case where its utterance would convict the party of a previous falsehood; — would be the denial of a previous affirmation upon the faith of which persons had dealt and pledged their credit or expended their money. It is a doctrine, therefore,... 
