CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 645

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26.

639

24.

bearing upon the paint

-point in

in question.

An Act of Parliament cannot

cartract between two-parties,

make

A...

it cannot coerce

A:

man's will, it

cannist campel him to be willing,

all that it

fav

do is to enact that

when certain things

are done by tivo

parties those parties shall be placed

are

contradors in fact.

parties

But I am not

not left

to

14 11

judgment upon this part of the case.

in

a

position to fretify it by

the high auctority of Sax. St. Leonards

who

ར་༠༅།

in his Book

Ev..

Vendors

تم کو

and Purchasers fr. 81. Motices to treat xxx "camist of course be plaid higher

As

though they

"itian

in both

in the same position had contracted. The principle

is the

same)

for it would surely

be monstrous to hold that curtain

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acts buing

should follow from certain

dove when the Statute I

places parties in the position of contractors and should not follow,

ihe

present instance, where the

in

مر

contracts." This being

00

Ide

not thiuse it necessary to labour the point further.

18.

Ane matters only

remain for

discussion - In the first place I do

not shink it can

be succefifully

J

contended that the pagement of Prawn

-Lighting Rates

rent and of Police and -.

by the Agent of Buddell up to

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