...dollars." In Bohn v. Lowery, 77 Miss. 427, 27 South. 605, this rule Is approved: "Every contract made for, or about, any matter or thing which is prohibited...statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself docs not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the defaulter, because a penalty...

...to be void."1 But afterwards it was laid down by Holt, J., in a usury case, that "any contract for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is void, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on...

...Respondent. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made imlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute...offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition thereof though there are no prohibitory words in the statute. (9 Cyc. 475, 580; Aetna Ins. Co. v. Harvey,...

...Con., 230), Lord HOLT said, 'Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is probihited, and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflict a penalty on the defaulter; because, a penalty...

...or thing which is prohibit-^ ed and made unlawful by statute is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty upon the offender,64 it is held that such a statute as that above set out goes to the formation of...

...loan of money for the purpose set forth in the plaintiff's claim was illegal. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited, and made unlawful by a statute, is void. Badgley v. Beale, 3 Watts, 264. Money lent to be employed in an unlawful game,...

...is prohibited and made unlawful by statute, it is void, though the statute itself does not declare it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender. . . . Nor is there any distinction in this state, whether the contract is malum prohibitum or malum...