 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 628 pages
...sometimes screen men of a different character from engagements which they are bound in foro conscientiee to perform. This is a defect inherent in all human...and cannot be departed from to suit particular cases : n which a refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case... | |
 | William Sullivan Pattee - Contracts - 1893 - 554 pages
...General rules of law established for the protection and security of honest and fair-minded men, who may inconsiderately make promises without any equivalent,...refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
 | Ernest Wilson Huffcut, Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - Contracts - 1894 - 762 pages
...General rules of law established for the protection and security of honest and fair-minded men, who may inconsiderately make promises without any equivalent,...refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Contracts - 1894 - 576 pages
...sometimes screen men of a different character from engagements which they are bound in foro conscientitv to perform. This is a defect inherent in all human...refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
 | William Wirt Howe - Civil law - 1896 - 374 pages
...sometimes screen men of a different character from engagements which they are bound in foro conscientise to perform." "This is a defect inherent in all human systems of legislation, . . . and cannot be departed from to suit particular cases, in which a refusal to perform such a promise... | |
 | Alexander Haring - Engineering law - 1910 - 542 pages
...sometimes screen men of a different character from engagements which they are bound in foro conscientw to perform. This is a defect inherent in all human...refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 676 pages
...sometimes screen men of a different character from engagements which they are bound in foro conscientiae to perform. This is a defect inherent in all human...refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
 | William Albert Keener - Contracts - 1914 - 1256 pages
...General rules of law established for the protection and security of honest and fair-minded men, who may inconsiderately make promises without any equivalent,...refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
 | James Calvin Reed - Commercial law - 1917 - 652 pages
...sometimes screen men of a different character from engagements which they are bound in foro conscientiae to perform. This is a defect inherent in all human...refusal to .perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - Law - 1917 - 970 pages
...screen men of a different character from engage767 ments which they are bound in foro conscientiac to perform. This is a defect inherent in all human...refusal to perform such a promise may be disgraceful. The promise declared on in this case appears to have been made without any legal consideration. The... | |
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... to perform. This is a defect inherent in all human systems of legislation. The rule that a mere verbal promise, without any consideration, cannot be enforced by action, is universal in its application, and cannot be departed from to suit particular... 
