 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...in SMITH, these words: " Every contract made for or about any matter or " thing, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute " is a void contract,...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 no... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 700 pages
...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 - United States - 1530 pages
...Holt (Carthew, 252) " 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 does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...Chief Justice Holt(d), 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 does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - Contracts - 1821 - 656 pages
...matter or ' thing which 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 a penalty on the offender ; because a ' penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...remarked, as a general rule, 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 does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Hawkins - Criminal procedure - 1824 - 838 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Barton, Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde - Conveyancing - 1826 - 658 pages
...For per Holt, Ch. J. (.r), " every contract made for or about aoy matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract,...itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition (/rV (?) Cockshot v. Bennette,... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - Commercial law - 1826 - 660 pages
...For per Holt, Ch. 3. (.r), " every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract,...itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition (,//)." (?) Cockshot v.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 732 pages
...expresses himself thus: " Every contract, made for or about any matter or thing, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract...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 no prohibitory... | |
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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... 
