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Licensing - From: 1200 To: 1799

This page lists 2 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.

 
Brown v Nelson [1658] EngR 107; (1658) Sty 317; (1658) 82 ER 741 (A)
1658


Litigation Practice, Licensing
Whether a judgement given against one of two defendants were good.
An action of debt upon the Statute 7 Ed. 6. for selling of wine without licence, was brought against 2 defendants, they both plead nil debet, whereupon issue being joyned, a special verdict was found, viz. that as to one nil debet, and that as to the other he had drawn a pint of wine without licence, and upon this, judgement was given against him that was found culpable; it was questioned whether this were a good judgement. But Roll Chief Justice concluded it was a good judgement, and cited many cases adjudged in point to prove it, and one in particular in an action upon the statute for dying with logwood, and he took a difference between an action grounded upon a joynt contract, or a joint trespasse, and an action brought joyntly upon a statute against two, or for a tort done by two, as this is upon the statute. In the first case judgement cannot be given against one of the contractors, in the other it may.
[ Commonlii ]

 
 Thomas v Sorrell; KBD 1674 - (1674) Vaughan 330; [1673] EWHC KB J85; 124 ER 1098-1113
 
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