 | United States. Supreme Court - 1817 - 584 sider
...that this question should be at rest. Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable...acceptance binding the person who makes the promise. This is such a case. There is, therefore, no error in the judgment of the circuit court, and it is... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 sider
...terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards Jakes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance, binding the person who makes the promise." On the second point, it was decided that "the bankruptcy lias no effect upon the acts of the agent,... | |
 | 1830 - 446 sider
...terms, to draw upon goods shipped by him to them, was not sufficient to charge them as acceptors. Ib. 8. A letter written within a reasonable time, before...acceptance, binding the person who makes the promise. Ib.' 9. A written demand of payment, on the maker of a promissory note, transmitted to him by mail,... | |
 | 1830 - 522 sider
...not to be mistaken.and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes tl«! bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance, binding the person who makes the promise." On the second point, it was decided that "the bankruptcy lias no effect upon the acts of the agent,... | |
 | John Bayley - 1836 - 700 sider
...delivered the opinion of the Court. " Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this Court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable...acceptance binding the person who makes the promise. This is such a case." "The mere circumstance that the bill was taken for a pre-existing debt has not... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 670 sider
...that this question should be at rest. Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable...acceptance binding the person who makes the promise." The judgment of the court below was affirmed. On the first point, therefore, I am of opinion that there... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1839 - 700 sider
...stand on the same footing with the latter English decisions. IB Coolidge vs. Payson, (2 / Wheat. 6*,) Chief Justice Marshall thus states the law : // "...who makes the promise." So, in the case of McEvers vs. Mason, Hodgson & Co., (10 Johns. R. 207,) it was held, that a promise in writing to accept a bill... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (1st Circuit), William Wetmore Story - 1842 - 668 sider
...mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person, who afterwards lakes the bill upon the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance, binding the person, who makes the promise. To this doctrine, thus limited, the Supreme Court have ever since steadily adhered, whenever the question... | |
 | 1847 - 554 sider
...that this question should be at rest. Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this Court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable...virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the proCoolidge el a!, w. rnywn et al. mise. This is such a case. There is, therefore, no error in the... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1849 - 814 sider
...subject cited by the judge below, is that of Coolidgc v. Paysan, 2 Wheaton 75, where it was settled, that a letter written within a reasonable time before...acceptance binding the person who makes the promise." Subsequently this rule was confirmed by the decisions of cases before the Supreme Court of the US Schmmelpenneck... | |
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Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown... 
