 That 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 doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty...  Opinions of Attorneys General - Página 1401851Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Frederick Stroud - 1903 - 920 páginas
...makes it illegal " (Maxwell, 256, citing Gye v. Felton, 4 Taunt. 876). " Nota, every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and...statute, is a Void Contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a Penalty... | |
 | Gawayne Baldwin Hamilton - 1904 - 350 páginas
...agreement, but it was held that it could not be enforced in this country (c). " Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and...statute is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be BO, but only inflicts a penalty on the defaulter, because a penalty... | |
 | 1904 - 746 páginas
...This being premised, it is next asserted, in the words of Lord Holt, "that every contract made for or about any matter or thing, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is void, though the statute do not expressly declare it so, but .only inflicts a penalty on the offender;... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - 1904 - 832 páginas
...about any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by statute is void, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty upon the offender.7 Obedience to the laws is enforced by declaring illegal contracts void ; by refusing... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1905 - 726 páginas
...prohibit it1 in accordance with the opinion of Lord Holt, in an old case, that "Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and...statute, is a void contract, though the statute Itself doth not mention that It shall be so, but only Inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... | |
 | Tennessee. Court of Chancery Appeals - 1905 - 826 páginas
...any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by the statute, is void though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the defendant, because the penalty implies a prohibition though there be no prohibitory words in the statute.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1907 - 1142 páginas
...Bartlett v. Vinor (Carth. 252; Chitty on Contracts, 230), Lord Holt said:' Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited,...it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the defaulter; because, a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting words in the statute.'... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1907 - 1150 páginas
...Bartlett v. Vinor (Carth. 252; Chitty on Contracts, 230), Lord Holt said : ' Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited,...it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the defaulter; because, a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting words in the statute.... | |
 | 1908 - 848 páginas
...expressed by Lord Chief Justice Holt in Bartlett v. Vinor/Carthew 253, as follows: "Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, tliough the statute itself does not mention that It shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the... | |
 | 1909 - 1342 páginas
...Sales, Cent Dig. § 100; Dec. Dig. $ 48.*] 4. CONTRACTS (§ 105*)— VALIDITY. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute is void. [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Contracts, Cent. Dig. § 477; Dec. Dig. § 105.*]... | |
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