 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...  The Central Law Journal - Side 3021883Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1809 - 676 sider
...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,...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... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1812 - 700 sider
...matter or tiling, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute1, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition, thongh there are not any... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1530 sider
...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...is a •void- contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 sider
...Simony.— Simony is the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &c. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing,...made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 sider
...matter or thing, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are not any prohibitory words in the... | |
 | George Long - 1821 - 294 sider
...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...statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - 1821 - 656 sider
...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 sider
...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...statute, is a void contract, though the .statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1824 - 838 sider
...five shillings for procuring the loan of a hundred Cartl>. 251. pounds, that such contract is void, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so. f Sect. 81. By 53 Geo. 3. c. 141. s. 9. it is enacted, "That all Solicitors, &c. " and every solicitors... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - 1826 - 660 sider
...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...it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition (,//)." (?) Cockshot v. Bennette, 2 Durnf. and E.... | |
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