 | Great Britain. Courts, Thomas Leach - 1815 - 582 strani
...but it has Stra, sos. been decided in the case of Armorie v. Delamain, that where a chimney-sweeper's boy found a jewel and carried it to the shop of the defendant, a goldsmith, to inquire the value of it, and the defendant detained it and refused to deliver it back... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1817 - 374 strani
...The plaintiff, being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel, and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith), to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones; and calling... | |
 | Sir Edmund Saunders, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1824 - 494 strani
...possession, but which ceases when the true owner appears ; as where the plaintiff, being a chimney sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the shop of the...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of his apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and called... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - 1838 - 774 strani
...wrong-doer; for possession isprimd facie evidence of property .c( 1 ) As where a chimney-sweeper's boy found a jewel, and carried it to the shop of the...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of his apprentice, who, under the pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - 1838 - 928 strani
...wrong-doer ; for possession is primd facie evidence of property". As where a chimney-sweeper's boy found i jewel, and carried it to the shop of the defendant,...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands >::' his apprentice, who under the pretence of weighing it took or. the stones, and... | |
 | John William Smith - 1841 - 744 strani
...THE plaintiff, being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel, and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith) to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
 | 1844 - 506 strani
...case the plaintiff being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith), to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Edmund Saunders - 1845 - 602 strani
...possession, but which ceases when the true owner appears ; as where the plaintiff, being a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the shop of the...a goldsmith, to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of his apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and called... | |
 | William Tidd - 1856 - 976 strani
...The plaintiff, being a chimney sweeper's boy, found a jewel, and carried it to the defendant's shop, (who was a goldsmith,) to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1867 - 664 strani
...books ; the plaintiff, a chimney-sweeper's boy, found a jewel and carried it to the defendant's shop (who was a goldsmith) to know what it was, and delivered it into the hands of the apprentice, who, under pretence of weighing it, took out the stones, and calling... | |
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... under pretence of weighing it, took out; the stones, and calling to the master to let him know it came to three halfpence, the master offered the boy the money, who refused to take it, and insisted to have the thing again; whereupon the apprentice... 
