 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1826 - 706 pages
...therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent gaod consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had...some positive rule of law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded never i nulii have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1834 - 626 pages
...revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medi. ,um of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can have no original right of action if the obligation on which it is formed, never could have been enforced... | |
 | William Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 678 pages
...consideration, which might have been enforced at low, through the medium of an implied promise, hud it not been suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give no original right of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Law - 1840 - 488 pages
...promise. An express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute. Therefore a declaration, charging the defendant on a promise to repay the plaintiff money laid out... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1841 - 1040 pages
...however, an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had...of action if the obligation on which it is founded CO -M'Ar«i' v. Reid, 2 M. & Sc. 89. cited ante, 43, n. (o). (g) Ante, 15; and see Sykes v. (k) See... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 564 pages
...that an exSrese promise can only revive a precedent good consieration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had...not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision." It would seem, therefore, that the case of Gibson v. Dickie, (3 II. & S. 433), where a declaration,... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 528 pages
...promise. An express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute. Therefore a declaration, charging the defendant on a promise to repay the plaintiff money laid out... | |
 | Francis Towers Streeten, Ewen Henry Cameron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 716 pages
...CONSIDERATION. An express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had...action if the obligation, on which it is founded, could never have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statutory provision.... | |
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An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law, through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no... 
