 | William Wetmore Story - 1871 - 784 Seiten
...have a penalty annexed to its performance. The doctrine, as laid down by Lord Holt, Is, " 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 does not mention that it shall be so, but only... | |
 | India - 1878 - 710 Seiten
...to us to fall within the rule stated by Chief Justice Holt in liartlett v. Vinor (d), viz., ' every contract made for or about any matter or thing which...and made unlawful by Statute, is a void contract"' (e). (4) Thus, when the plaintiff had contracted with the Government to keep certain horses for the... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1875 - 724 Seiten
...cannot be enforced against the corporation. Dively v. City of Cídar Falls, 21 Iowa, 565. 274. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute, is void ; and a repeal of the prohibitory act does not render valid a contract made while it was in force... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 Seiten
...1 Story, 122, says : " I adopt the language of Lord HOLT and Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, that every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by statute is a void contract, although the statute does not mention it, but only... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1907 - 548 Seiten
...invalidity follows as a legal consequence." So in Bartlett v. Vinor, Garth. 251, Lord Holt said : "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... | |
 | William Wait - 1878 - 1026 Seiten
...(mala prohibita), no longer exists. See Hitt v. Spear, 50 K H. 253, 277 ; SC, 9 Am. Eep. 205. And 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 does not mention that it shall be so, but only... | |
 | John William Smith - 1878 - 596 Seiten
...r. Rowlands, 2 M. & W. 149. 1 " Every contract," said Lord Holt, in Bartlett r. Viner, Carth. 252, "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 does not mention that it shall be so, but... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 888 Seiten
...firkins not branded according to lawHere the court quote Lord HOLT as saying " that every contract made about, any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is avoid contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but... | |
 | 1886 - 1942 Seiten
...The general rule is laid down by HOLT, CJ : "Every contract made for or about any matter or tiling which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute is...it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender; because the penalty implies a prohibition." Jiartlett v. Veii'rr, Garth. 252. In Smith v.... | |
 | Edward Wilberforce - 1881 - 494 Seiten
...thing which is prohibited, or made declared68 unlawful by statute, is a void contract, though the vold- statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition though there are no prohibitory words in the statute"... | |
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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... 
