 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 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...offender; " because A penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no " prohibitory words in the statute." If the law is correctly laid down in these... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 728 pages
...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...offender ; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are not any prohibitory words in the statute. Hence, in the case of simony, although the... | |
 | George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...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...offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute. And in a late case (e), Sir James Mansfield,... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - Contracts - 1821 - 656 pages
...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...offender ; because a ' penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting ' words in the statute' Bartlett v. Vinor, Carth. 252. This principle... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...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...offender ; 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)... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - Commercial law - 1826 - 660 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...offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition (,//)." (?) Cockshot v. Bennette, 2 Durnf. and E. 763. Bryant v. Christie, I Stark. 329. 2ii. 416.... | |
 | Charles Barton, Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde - Conveyancing - 1826 - 658 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...offender, because a penalty implies a prohibition (/rV (?) Cockshot v. Bennette, 2 Durnf. and E. 763. Bryant v. Christie, 1 Stark. 329. 8 it. 416, (r)... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 732 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...offender ; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute : as, for instance, in the case of simony, the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 686 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...offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute: as, for instance, in the case of simony, the... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - Law - 1831 - 592 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
