| John William Smith - 1853 - 488 Seiten
...and brought in; and the Court, in holding the contract itself not vitiated by this statute, said, " We have concluded, before the rule can be applied...a penalty only for doing a thing which it forbids, principle that, though a man cannot defend himself from liability upon his contract made by deed by... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 Seiten
...contravention of it are void, in the sense that they are not to be enforced in a court of justice ; that the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers meant that a contract in contravention of it was to be void, so as not to be enforced in a court of... | |
| United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1962 - 712 Seiten
...Rwvnels, this courtj after noticing some fluctuations in the course of decision, and observing "that we have concluded, before the rule can be applied...penalty, or a penalty only for doing a thing which it foroids, that the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 Seiten
...contravention of it are void, in the sense that they are not to be enforced in a court of justice; that the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers meant that a contract in contravention of it was to be void, so as not to be enforced in a court of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1879 - 696 Seiten
...forfeiture is prescribed and explicitly defined. In Harris v. Runnels (12 How. 79), this court said that " the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers meant that a contract in contravention of it was to be void, so as not to be enforced in a court of... | |
| Irving Browne - 1880 - 638 Seiten
...forfeiture is prescribed and explicitly defined. In Harris v. Runnels, 12 How. 79, this court said that "the statute must be examined as a whole to find out whether or not the makers meant that a contract in contravention of it was to be void, 8O as not to be enforced in a court of... | |
| George Washington Field - 1881 - 620 Seiten
...forfeiture is prescribed and explicitly defined. In Harris v. Runnells (12 How., 79), this court said, that "the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the maker meant that a contract in contravention of it was to be void, so as not to be enforced in a court... | |
| 1884 - 1126 Seiten
...forfeiture is prescribed and explicitly defined. In Harris v. Runnels, 12 How., 79, this court said that " the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers meant that a contract in contravention of it was to be void, so as not to be enforced in a court of... | |
| 1918 - 1212 Seiten
...reluctant to enforce a forfeiture. In Harris v. Runnels, 12 How, (US) 79, 13 L. Ed. 901, It Is snid the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers meant that a contract in contravention of it was to be void or not to be enforced In a court of justice.... | |
| 1898 - 1204 Seiten
...prohlbita. and mala In se; but as said by Mr. Justice Swayne in the case of Harris v. Runnels, 12 How. 79: 'Before the rule can be applied in any 'case of a...whole, to find out whether or not the makers of It intended that a contract made In contravention of it should be void. It does not follow that the unlawfulness... | |
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