 | William Selwyn - 1812 - 700 páginas
...matter or tiling, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute1, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition, thongh there are not any... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1530 páginas
...enactment is equivalent to a positive prohibition. For we are told by Lord Holt (Carthew, 252) " that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...is a •void- contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 páginas
...matter or thing, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall...a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are not any prohibitory words in the statute. Hence, in the case of simony, although the statute (31 Eliz.... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 páginas
...Simony.— Simony is the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &c. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing,...made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the... | |
 | George Long - 1821 - 294 páginas
...to an absolute avoidance of the contract. It has been laid down by Lord Chief Justice Holt(d), that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - 1821 - 656 páginas
...Morison and Williie has long been established. It was laid down in express terms by Lord Holt, ' that every contract made for, or about any matter or '...is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a 1 void contract, thougli the statute itself doth not mention that it ' shall be so, but only inflicts... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - 1824 - 680 páginas
...shortly those which are declared void by statute; and here it may be remarked, as a general rule, that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...statute, is a void contract, though the .statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1824 - 838 páginas
...five shillings for procuring the loan of a hundred Cartl>. 251. pounds, that such contract is void, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so. f Sect. 81. By 53 Geo. 3. c. 141. s. 9. it is enacted, "That all Solicitors, &c. " and every solicitors... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - 1826 - 660 páginas
...Geo. 3. c. 58, inflicting a penalty for selling pernicious drugs (w). For per Holt, Ch. 3. (.r), " every contract made for or about any matter or thing...offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition (,//)." (?) Cockshot v. Bennette, 2 Durnf. and E. 763. Bryant v. Christie, I Stark. 329. 2ii. 416.... | |
 | Charles Barton, Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde - 1826 - 658 páginas
...for selling pernicious drugs (w). For per Holt, Ch. J. (.r), " every contract made for or about aoy matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful...offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition (/rV (?) Cockshot v. Bennette, 2 Durnf. and E. 763. Bryant v. Christie, 1 Stark. 329. 8 it. 416, (r)... | |
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Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... 
