| Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1818 - 540 Seiten
...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... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1907 - 930 Seiten
...Lord Eldon, in 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...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... | |
| New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1887 - 812 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1880 - 1042 Seiten
...Lord Eldon has 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... | |
| Francis Vesey, Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1845 - 428 Seiten
...a grant deal 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 old customers will resort to the old place. Fraud would form a different consideration : but, if that effect is prevented by no other means than... | |
| Joseph Story - 1846 - 796 Seiten
...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... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1882 - 874 Seiten
...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... | |
| Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County) - 1853 - 612 Seiten
...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... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - 1853 - 766 Seiten
...premises, -which had been sold "with the good-will of the trade,'1 Lord Eldon said, "ТЬgood-will is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort t« ih •' old place." In Ex parte Farlow, Ex parte Still, Ex parte Gosling, (p. 596, post,) the interest... | |
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