 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1893 - 1182 pages
...prices, and the goods are not to bo delivered, but one party is to pay the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods,...constitutes nothing more than a wager, and is null and void. And this is now the law in England, by force of the statute of 8 & 0 Viet. c. 100, 8. 18, altering... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...and the goods are not to be delivered, but one party is to pay to the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods...constitutes nothing more than a wager, and is null and void under the statute." The statute referred to by the anthor is that of 8 and 9 Victoria, chapter 109,... | |
 | Law - 1888 - 556 pages
...purchase and saleof personal property ordinarily, the proper measure of damages is the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods at the time when the contrsct is broken. This rule may be varied according to the principles established in... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Sales - 1877 - 984 pages
...and the goods are not to be delivered, but one party is to pay to the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods...executing the contract, then the whole transaction conGrizewood stitutes nothing more than a wager, and is null and void D. Blanc. un(jer the statute.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 2094 pages
...contract shall be discharged by the payment of one party to it to the other of the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods at the date fixed for their delivery, is void, because the contract evidences a wager. Irwin v. Williar, 110 US 499, 508,... | |
 | Benjamin James Lea - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 820 pages
...prices, and the goods are not to be delivered, but one party is to pay the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods at the dates fixed for executing the contracts, then the whole transaction constitutes nothing more than a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 2096 pages
...of damages on the seller's failure to deliver goods according to contract is the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods at the time when, and the place where, they should have been delivered; and that when goods are sold by sample,... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Les Salles-sur-Verdon (France) - 1881 - 1076 pages
...and the goods are not to be delivered, but one party is to pay to the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods...executing the contract, then the whole transaction conGrizewood "titutes nothing more than a wager, and is null and void v. Biane. under the statute,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 764 pages
...executory contract to sell and deliver goods, the measure of damages generally is, the difference between the contract price and the market price of the goods at the time and place of delivery specified in the contract. But this rule is inapplicable where the purchaser... | |
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If, under guise of such a contract, the real intent be merely to speculate in the rise or fall of prices^ and the goods are not to be delivered, but one party is to pay to the other the difference between the contract price and the market price of the... 
