...Good-will " of a Retail Shop in a populous neighbourhood? " Good-will" is defined by Lord Eldon to be " the probability that the old Customers will resort to the old Place (/")•" A person, not a Lawyer, would not imagine that when the Goodwill and Trade of a Retail Shop...

...Spangler. In CruUwdl v. Lye, 17 Vea. 846, Lord Eldon said that the good will which is the subject of sale is .nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place, but Sir George Jessel, in Ginesi v. Cooper & Co., 14 Ch. Div. 596, 601, points out that this definition...

...Cnittu-cH v. Lye (1810), 17 Ves. 335 (at p. 340), said: "The good will which has been the subject of sale is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will reso-rt to the old place." This definition, though often criticised, seems to me to contain the germ of all the more modern and...

...connection with a store or shop, or some other permanent place of business; for Lord Eldon defined it as nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place (CruttweH v. Lye, 17 Ves. 336) ; and Lord Chelmstbrd has said, concerning it, that when a trade is...

...told us what he considered they meant. He says (p. 346), " The goodwill, which has been the subject of sale, is nothing more than the probability, that the old customers will resort to the old place." He did not consider there that there was any connection except the chance of customers, who wanted...

...premises, which had been sold " with the good-will of the trade," Lord Eldon said, " The good-will is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place." In Ex parte Farloui, Ex parts Still, Ex parte Galling, (p. 596. post), the interest in "good-will"...

...too much to be inferred from any thing, that has passed. The good-will, which has been the subject of sale, is nothing more than the probability, that the...form a different consideration : but, if that effect is prevented by no other means than those, which belong to the [*347] fair course of improving a trade,...

...336 ; Coglake ».Till, 1 Russ. R. 376; Dougherty v. Van Nostrand, 1 Hoffm. 68, 69. of this sort was nothing more than the probability, that the old customers will resort to the old place.1 It is certainly not a visible, tangible interest, or a commodity, upon which a definite or...

...speak the real bargain and then be enforced. 57 Ga., 319. 2. Good-will is denned by Lord Eldon to be " nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place." No subsequent definition has changed in any material respect this rendition, and all the writers seem...

...establishment; Cuttwell v. Lye, 17 Vesey, 336. Lord Eldon on one occasion said that a good-will of this sort was nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place. It is a general remark, that this is not a tangible interest, upon which a definite or fixed value...