P. 249), and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended... Atlantic Reporter - Página 7591886Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1843 - 528 páginas
...express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Edmund Saunders - 1845 - 602 páginas
...promise can only revive a pre" cedent good consideration, which " might have been enforced at law " through the medium of an implied " promise, had it...positive rule of law ; but can " give no original cause of action, if " the obligation, on which it is founded,'' " never could have been enforced at... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 páginas
...effectually re- j^,™".5'" vive a precedent goodconsideration, which might have been enforced at law, through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, as in the cases, already adverted to, of bankruptcy and infancy; or where a debt is barred by the Statute... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1854 - 780 páginas
...divorce was obtained, was this a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law, through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by that rule of law which denies the validity of the wife's contracts made during coverture. The item... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1847 - 988 páginas
...his liability, (t) The express promise in these cases revives a precedent good consideration, but it can give no original right of action if the obligation...enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statutory provision, (u) Past seduction and past cohabitation, consequently, are not a sufficient consideration... | |
| John William Smith - 1847 - 438 páginas
...suggestion of a lecture, that I fear there may be some among my audience to might have been enforced at law, through the medium of an implied promise, had it not...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1854 - 930 páginas
...only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medinm of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by...some positive rule of law; but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law. —... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1850 - 712 páginas
...implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give no original cause of action if the obligation on which it is founded...not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision." And indeed the promise of a certificated bankrupt must be express, distinct and unequivocal. (Fleming... | |
| John William Smith - 1853 - 488 páginas
...only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law, through the medinm of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation on which it is 1 In some of the earlier American cases, there were... | |
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