 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1809 - 676 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1530 páginas
...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...because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting words in a statute." So> also, it is a settled principle of law, that all contracts,... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 páginas
...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...because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are not any prohibitory words in the statute. Hence, in the case of simony, although the statute (31... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Long - 1821 - 294 páginas
...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...because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute. And in a late case (e), Sir James Mansfield, Chief Justice... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - 1821 - 656 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are 551. See also 2 P. Wms. 170. Doug. 260. (t) Jackto n v. Duchaire, 3 Term Rep. (n) Per Yatet, Just.... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - 1826 - 660 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Barton, Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde - 1826 - 658 páginas
...for selling pernicious drugs (w). For per Holt, Ch. J. (.r), " every contract made for or about aoy matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - 1829 - 732 páginas
...manner, by Lord Holt, in Bariktt v. Viner.* In that case, that learned judge expresses himself thus: " Every contract, made for or about any matter or thing,...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... | |
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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... 
