 | Charles Petersdorff - 1831 - 592 sider
...st.itnte is a void contract, alii ough the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so. bat only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are not nny prohibitory words in the statute. The 31 F.liz. c. 6. only inflicts a penally by way of forfeiture,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1833 - 1072 sider
...prohibited. It is laid down by Holt CJ in Bartlctt v. Finor(a), " that every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful...though there are no prohibitory words in the statute ; as, for instance, in the case of simony, the statute only inflicts a penalty by way of forfeiture,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1834 - 652 sider
...thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts...though there are no prohibitory words in the statute." The same principle is more briefly expressed by Lord Ellenboraugh in the case of Langton v. Hughes... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 sider
...the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflict a penalty on the defaulter; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute.'" The statute 89 G. 3, c. 79, s. 27, provides that printers shall affix their names to any books they... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sandford Nevile, Sir William Montagu Manning - 1835 - 980 sider
...upon the present action. In Bartlett v. Viner (a), Lord Holt says, that every contract made about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful...penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting words in the statute. And in the report of the same ca§e, in Skiimer(b), the Court .say... | |
 | Sandford Nevile, Sir William Montagu Manning - 1835 - 996 sider
...is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself dotli not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts...penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting words in the statute. And in the report of the same caie,in Skimter(b), the Court say that... | |
 | Thomas Charles Morton - 1836 - 526 sider
...Bishop, 2 Cr. & J. 529 ; SC 2 Tyrw. 602. (/) 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 55, s. 43 ; 6 Geo. IV. c. 110, s. 46. statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself...because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there be no prohibitory words in the statute" (a). The contrary doctrine was formerly held ; for, where in... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, James William Mylne, Richard Davis Craig - 1838 - 798 sider
...the (a) See Carih. 252. (4) See 1 M. $ S. 596. 86 1837' Ewiso v. OsBALDISTON. the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts...though there are no prohibitory words in the statute." In Langton v. Hughes, Lord Ellenborough says, " What is done in contravention of the provisions of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - 1839 - 1084 sider
...right. In Barllett v. Vinor, Garth. 252, Lord Holt says that " every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful...prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the 1838. statute." And in the report of the same case in Skinner, " v ' FEROUSSON 322, the court say,... | |
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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... 
