 | Delaware. Court of Chancery - 1883 - 644 páginas
...of the instrument cannot be corrected. Says Chancellor Kent, in Lyon vs. Richmond, 2 Johns. Ch. 60. "Every man is to be charged, at his peril, with a...the law. There is no other principle which is safe or practicable in the common intercourse of mankind." The principle has been fully discussed and applied... | |
 | 1910 - 450 páginas
...Kent, in Lyon i's. Richmond, 2 Johns. Ch. Rep., 60, says, the court (speaking of the court of chancery) do not undertake to relieve parties from their acts and deeds, fairly done, though under a mistake of the law. . . . To this maxim there are some exceptions, which do not touch... | |
 | Sir Edward Fry - 1884 - 868 páginas
...are not chargeable for want of knowledge of the law, and equity will relieve parties from their own acts and deeds, fairly done, on a full knowledge of facts, though under a mistake of law. Lowndes v" Chisholm, 2 McCord's Ch., 255; Hopkins Ex'rs v. Maryck, 1 Hill.'s Ch., 257; Drew v.... | |
 | William Albert Keener - 1888 - 1234 páginas
...of equity." Chancellor KENT thought such a distinction existed, when he said, in Lyon v. Ilichmond,2 "Courts do not undertake to relieve parties from their...the law ; there is no other principle which is safe or practicable in the common intercourse of mankind." The principle upon which courts refuse to relieve... | |
 | 1889 - 952 páginas
...v. De Kay. 9 Paige, 528. Every man is to be charged at his peril with a knowledge of the law; hence courts do not undertake to relieve parties from their acts and deeds, though under a mistake of law. Crosier v. Acer, 7 Paige, 137; Zollman v. Moore. 21 Gratt. 3S3; Lyon... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1898 - 838 páginas
...parties from their acts and deeds fairly done on a full knowledge of facts, though under a mistake of law. Every man is to be charged at his peril with a knowledge of the law. There is noother principle which is safe and practicable in the common intercourse of mankind. And to permit... | |
 | Sir Hari Singh Gour - 1901 - 1244 páginas
...is not such a mistake as the Court will relieve against. " Every man," said the Chancellor Kent, " is to be charged at his peril with a knowledge of...safe and practicable in the common intercourse of mankind."6 The law presumed to be known, however, is the general law of the land. No one is presumed... | |
 | 1901 - 298 páginas
...upon by the Chancellor is the case of Bilbie v. Lumley. In 1816 the same eminent jurist declares: "The courts do not undertake to relieve parties from their...full knowledge of facts, though under a mistake of law. Every man is to be charged at his peril with a knowledge of the law."2 Mr. Justice Story, in his... | |
 | James Smith McMaster - 1903 - 1004 páginas
...between parties takes place, cannot have a retrospective effect, and overturn such settlement. The courts do not undertake to relieve parties from their...full knowledge of facts, though under a mistake of law. Every man is to be charged at his peril with a knowledge of the law. There is no other principle... | |
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The courts do not undertake to relieve parties from their acts and deeds fairly done on a full knowledge of facts, though under a mistake of law. Every man is to be charged at his peril with a knowledge of the law. There is no other principle which is... 
