 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...  Opinions of Attorneys General - Page 1401851Full view - About this book
 | Frank Frederick Brightly - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 686 pages
...Kulp 402. 149. Where a contract is made which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute, it is void, though the statute itself does not mention that it...be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender. But where such a contract is executed or performed, both parties are deemed in part dclicto, and the... | |
 | Charles Andrew Ray - Antitrust law - 1892 - 580 pages
...statute contains an express prohibition of an attempt to contravene it or not.' Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and...because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there were no prohibitory words in the statute.' % It cannot be the foundation of a right as between the... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Contracts - 1893 - 928 pages
...Hull, CJ, here said : " Kvery contract made for or aliont any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract,...penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute." (r) Drury v. Defuntaino, 1 Tannt. 136. (rf) This principle is sustained... | |
 | J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1014 pages
...practicing as surgeon without a license. Eut in Baeltell v. Vinor, Holt, CJ, said: Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and...statute is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the defaulter, because a penalty... | |
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 566 pages
...not be done." " Every contract," says Lord Chief Justice Holt, in Bartlett v. Vinor (b), " made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and...any statute, is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the defaulter." There are numerous... | |
 | Sir Hari Singh Gour - Transfer (Law) - 1901 - 1244 pages
...transactions are in the eye of the law absolutely void. " Every contract," said Holt, CJ, "made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute, is a void contract." * But that does not mean that the Court can be moved to cancel or set... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1901 - 914 pages
...Skin. 322, Holt, CJ, said: "Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but: only inflicts a penalty on the offenders, because a penalty... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1262 pages
...ago, Lord Holt said. In the leading case of Bartlett v. Vinor, Garth. 252: "Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which Is prohibited and...statute itself does not mention that it shall be so." In Cope v. Rowlands, 2 Mees. & W. 157, Baron Parke observes: "It is perfectly settled that where tue... | |
 | Frederick Stroud - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 928 pages
...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...Penalty implies a Prohibition though there are no prohibitory words in the statute" (per Holt, CJ, Burtlett v. T'inor, Carth. 252), eg prohibition against... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 996 pages
...illegal act. In Bartlett \. Vinor, Carth., 251, Chief Justice Holt says, — "Any contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and...statute is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only indict a penalty on the defaulter, because a penalty... | |
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