 Nota, 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...  An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius... - Pàgina 548per William Selwyn - 1827 - 1422 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1809 - 676 pàgines
...laid down by ~ v. Lord Chief Justice Holt in Bartlett v. Pinor, Car*A. 252. in SMITH, these words: " Every contract made for or about any matter or " thing,...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1530 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | George Long - 1821 - 294 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - 1821 - 656 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - 1826 - 660 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Barton, Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde - 1826 - 658 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - 1829 - 732 pàgines
...manner, by Lord Holt, in Bariktt v. Viner.* In that case, that learned judge expresses himself thus: " Every contract, made for or about any matter or thing,...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... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - 1831 - 592 pàgines
...si lied to bounty on (ivjior'ution; Attorney Gencad v. Smylhies, Wei'jhtw. 209. mony. 1 S'niony ¡3 the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical...matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful hy any st.itnte is a void contract, alii ough the statute itself does not mention that it shall be... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1831 - 686 pàgines
...remuneration. It would be inconsistent. In Barti leit v. Vlnor, Lord Chief Justice Holt said (ft): " Every contract made for or about any matter or thing...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... | |
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