 | John William Smith - 1853 - 488 sider
...the Court, in holding the contract itself not vitiated by this statute, said, " We have concluded, before the rule can be applied in any case of a statute...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 sider
...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 sider
...after noticing some fluctuations in the course of decision, and observing "that we have concluded, before the rule can be applied in any case of a statute...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 746 sider
...distinctions very difficult to be understood consistently with the rule; so much so, that we have concluded, before the rule can be applied in any case of a statute...whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it meant that a contract in contravention of it should be void, or that it was not to be so. In other... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1873 - 616 sider
...from which the contrary can properly be inferred, a contract in contravention of it is void," and " that the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it meant that a contract in contravention of it should be void, or that it was not to be so." An application... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 sider
...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... | |
 | Lorenzo Smith Boswell Sawyer, United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit) - 1875 - 786 sider
...to notice some of the contradictious in the application of the rule, and says: "We have concluded, before the rule can be applied in any case of a statute...whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it meant that a contract in contravention of it should be void, or that it was not to be so. In other... | |
 | John William Smith - 1878 - 596 sider
...the Court, in holding the contract itself not vitiated by this statute, said, " We have concluded, before the rule can be applied in any case of a statute...whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it meant that a contract in contravention of it should be void, or that it was not to be so. In other... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1879 - 696 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
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... the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it meant that a contract in contravention of it should be void, or that it was not to be so. 
