Selection of Leading Cases for the use of B.L. Students - Law of Contracts and Torts

As is the ease of !Ville. and ibutger ' where the king granted to the mayor and citizens of London guts/ ituila priAwgid %/ I n II bliereirit imMinfi in dr► And there it was resolved that although the grant be to the or►oration yet it 1.11°01 not enure to the body politic of the city but to the partcular persons of the corporation who should have the fruit and execution of the grant for [...] So in the case of.11ilew v. Spateman = where the corporation of Derby claim common by prescription and though the inheritance of the common he in the body politic yet the particular members enjoy the fruit and benefit of it and put in their own cattle to feed on the common and not the cattle belonging to the corporation : but that is not indeed our ease. [...] The learned Judge of the county Court left two questions to the jury firid whether the word old " had been used with reference to the oats in the conversation between the plaintiff and the defendant's manager ; Ntwolully whether the plaintiff had believed that the defendant believed or was under the impression that he was contracting for old oats ; in either of which cases he directed the ju [...] The question is whether under such circumstances the passive acquiescence of the seller in the self-deception of the buyer will entitle the latter to avoid the contract. [...] The case put of the purchase of an estate in which there is a mine under the surface but the fact is unknown to the seller is one in which a man of tender conscience or high honour would be unwilling to take advauta.► of the ignorance of the seller ; but there can be no doubt that the contract for the sale of the estate would be bindin...