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Definition of Vicars V. Wilcocks

((1806), 8 East, 1). The defendant told third persons that the plaintiff had done damage in the defendant’s rope yard, and in consequence the plaintiff was dismissed by his employer. Held, that the plaintiff could not recover as the damages alleged were too remote. ” The special damage must be the legal and natural consequence of the words spoken ” (per Lord Ellenborough, C.J.) – Note. In Lynch v. Knight (9 H. L. C. 577), Lord Wensleydale said ” To make the words actionable by reason of special damage the consequence must be such as … might fairly and reasonably have been anticipated.” Vice-Admiralty Courts. Courts having admiralty jurisdiction in British possessions overseas. They acted under commissions from the Crown authorising governors of colonies to exercise such powers as in England appertained to the Lord High Admiral. The Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890, provided for the establishment of Colonial Courts of Admiralty with a right of appeal to the King in Council in all British possessions to which it was applied by Order in Council

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Definition of Vicars V. Wilcocks is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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