 An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law, through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no...  The Law of Contracts - Seite 189von John William Smith - 1878 - 580 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - 1826 - 706 Seiten
...person ought to pay. An' express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent gaod consideration, which might have been enforced at law...some positive rule of law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded never i nulii have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - 1826 - 708 Seiten
...promise, such a person ought-tu pay. An express promise, therefore, as it should seera, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been...promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule ot law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded nerer could... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1834 - 626 Seiten
...P. 249; this conclusion is arrived at: "an express promise therefore it should seem oanfonly revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medi. ,um of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can have... | |
 | William Johnson - 1837 - 678 Seiten
...consideration, which might have been enforced at low, through the medium of an implied promise, hud it not been suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give no original right of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | 1840 - 488 Seiten
...325.) Mere moral consideration will not support an express promise. An express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute. Therefore a declaration, charging the defendant on a promise to repay the plaintiff money laid out... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus - 1841 - 1144 Seiten
...conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, " that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision." Instances are given of voidable contracts, as those of infants ratified by an express promise... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1841 - 1040 Seiten
...liable if he subsequently promise payment (o). In genera], however, an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been...of action if the obligation on which it is founded CO -M'Ar«i' v. Reid, 2 M. & Sc. 89. cited ante, 43, n. (o). (g) Ante, 15; and see Sykes v. (k) See... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Erskine Perry, Henry Davison - 1841 - 734 Seiten
...3. Mere moral consideration will not support an express promise. "An express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium ot an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no original... | |
 | 1843 - 528 Seiten
...325.) Mere moral consideration will not support an express promise. An express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute. Therefore a declaration, charging the defendant on a promise to repay the plaintiff money laid out... | |
 | 1843 - 564 Seiten
...to be correct in general, " that an exSrese promise can only revive a precedent good consieration, which might have been enforced at law through the...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision." It would seem, therefore, that the case of Gibson v. Dickie, (3 II. & S. 433), where a... | |
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