The principle seems to us to be that, in contracts in which the performance depends on the continued existence of a given person or thing, a condition is implied that the impossibility of performance arising from the perishing of the person or thing shall... English Reports Annotated, 1866-1900 - Page 1719edited by - 1866Full view - About this book
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 840 pages
...the contractor. Taylor v. Caldwell, 3 'B. & 8. 886, 834. In that case, Mr. Justice Blackburn said : "The principle seems to us to be that, in contracts...the person or thing shall excuse the performance." Taylor v. Caldwell is the leading case. It has been approved by our Court of Errors and Appeals in... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 932 pages
...Keating, J. and Montague Smith, J. 2Q Court of Queen's Bench, in the case of Taylor v. Caldwell (3). In one part of that judgment it is said, no doubt...contract is of a different kind, and appears to us to fall within the qualification of the principle found in the early part of the same judgment, where... | |
| Law - 1869 - 492 pages
...all and every covenant on his [part :" (See the form, 2 Chitty.) And, in conclusion, he remarked, " The principle seems to us to be that, in contracts...the person or thing shall excuse the performance. In none of these cases is the promise in words other than positive, nor is there any express stipulation... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 814 pages
...held discharged. Blackburn, J., said: ' ' The principle seems to us to be that, in contracts in which performance depends on the continued existence of...the person or thing, shall excuse the performance." And it is said in Dexter v. Norton, 47 NY 62 (7 Am. Rep. 415) : , "The reason given for the rule is... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 662 pages
...upon an elaborate consideration of the subject and review of the authorities, the principle is deduced that, in contracts in which the performance depends...the person or thing shall excuse the performance. Besides, the charter-party in this case contained a provision that the charterers should cause the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 804 pages
...shows that the same law had been already adopted by the English law as early as the Book of Assizes. The principle seems to us to be that in contracts,...the person or thing shall excuse the performance. In none of these cases is the promise in COMMON LAW. DIMSDALE f. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST... | |
| 1863 - 620 pages
...in contracts in which tho performance depends on the continued existence of a given person "r thing, the impossibility of performance arising from the perishing of the person or thing shall excuse tie performance. In none of these cases is the promise in words other than positive, nor is there any... | |
| Judah Philip Benjamin - Sales - 1868 - 748 pages
...the continued existence of a given person or thing, a condition is implied, that the impossibility arising from the perishing of the person or thing shall excuse the performance." This case was followed in Appleby v. Meyers, in Cam. Scacc. 3 And a party is equally excused from the... | |
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