 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
 | United States. Attorney-General - 1852 - 788 páginas
...to a positive prohibition. For we are told by Lord Holt (Carthew, 252)' that every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any stalute, is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only... | |
 | John William Smith - 1853 - 488 páginas
...to establish the 1 " Every contract," said Lord Holt, in Bartlett v. Viner, Carthew, 252, " 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... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - 1853 - 562 páginas
...of imticular article is thus stated by Lord Holt in Barttettv. Vinor (I): "Every contract made for or about any matter or thing, which is prohibited...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... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1883 - 658 páginas
...of the General Statutes. It is equally clear as a proposition of law that " every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts... | |
 | Hugh Barclay - 1855 - 998 páginas
...payment of the price ; 8th Feb. 1776, Duncan. In England it has been held, " that every contract made for fifth and sixth of William IV. chapter 02," without adding doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the ofleuder ; because a penalty... | |
 | Ontario Court of King's Bench - 1855 - 808 páginas
...Bartlelt v. Vinor (Garth. 252,) Holt CJ, observed, " Every " contract made for or about any matter which is prohibited " and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, " though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall he "so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a "penalty... | |
 | John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace - 1855 - 1006 páginas
...statute, is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflict a penalty on the offender because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute.' " Accord. Ferguson v. Norman, 5 Bing. NC 80, [Cundell v. Dawson,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1856 - 798 páginas
...greater amount of interest than may be lawful, shall be void. But the rule is, that a contract for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute, is void, though the statute itself does not mention that it is so. But the plaintiffs insist,... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1857 - 936 páginas
...matter or tiling which is prohibited, and made unlawful by anv statute, is a void contract, though tiie statute itself does not mention that it shall be so,...only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penaltv implies a prohibition, though there arc no prohibitory words in the statute." (c) Drury >'.... | |
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