 | Francis Buller - 1788 - 388 pàgines
...Parliament comes after and compels him to do it, the Statute repeals the Covenant. . ••.-" J • So if a Man covenant to do a Thing which is lawful, and an Aft comes to hinder him from doing it, the Covenant is repealed. Bur if a Man covenant not to do a... | |
 | Francis Buller - 1790 - 486 pàgines
...and an ad of parliament comes after and compels him to do it, the ftatute repeals the covenant. So if a man covenant to do a thing which is lawful, and an act comes to hinder him from doing it, the covenant is repealed. But if a man covenant not to do a thing... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, William Salkeld - 1795 - 534 pàgines
...compels him to do it, the ftatutc repeals the covenant : So .,,} , , . it-i ri tn »f H- covenants to do a thing which is lawful, and an act of parliament comes in and hinders him from doing it, the covenant ia repealed (Í). Vide Dyer 27. fl. 278. But if a man... | |
 | Samuel Marshall - 1808 - 530 pàgines
...(<•), A fhort (a) Sup 32, 33. (t) Vid. Brcwflcrv. Kttchell, I fall. 198. where Lord CJ Holt held that if a man covenant to do a thing which is lawful, and an aft of parliament come and kinder him from doing it, the covenant is repealed. Vid. Dy. ?".pl. 178.—... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Charles Durnford - 1817 - 888 pàgines
...them: but they are by no means necessary; for in Brewster v. Kitchatt (a) Holt, Ch. J. said, " If H. covenant to do a thing which is lawful, and an act of " parliament come in and hinder him from doing it, the covenant " is repealed;" for which was cited Dy. 27, pi.... | |
 | Henry Ballow, John Fonblanque - 1820 - 492 pàgines
...(r). (;•) From the rule laid down in Brewster v. Kitchen, i Salk. 198 ; that where a man covenants to do a thing which is lawful, and an act of parliament...hinders him from doing it, the covenant is repealed ; it might be inferred, that the I)ean and Chapter of St. Paul's were relieved from their covenant... | |
 | William Woodfall - 1822 - 722 pàgines
...comes afterwards and compels him to do it, the statute repeals the covenant : so, if one covenants to do a thing which is lawful, and an Act of Parliament comes in and hinders him from doing it, the covenant is repealed ; but if a man covenants not to do a thing... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - 1826 - 706 pàgines
...performance of that part of it which relates to the hostile acts of that government. In Brewster v. Kitckell, 1 Sulk. 198. it is said by Holt Ch. J. that " if a...indemnify the foreigner against the hostile acts of the British Government, that part of the contract is as much repealed as if an act of parliament had passed... | |
 | 1869 - 1032 pàgines
...parliament comes after and compels him to do it, the statute repeals the covenant. So, if H. covenants to do a thing which is lawful, and an act of parliament comes in and hinders him from doing it, the covenant is repealed." To apply the foregoing observations to... | |
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Parliament ? this is the difference, viz., where H. covenants not to do an act or thing which was lawful to do, and an Act of Parliament comes after, and compels him to do it, the statute repeals the covenant; so, if H. covenants to do a thing which is... 
