 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 888 pages
...Sugd. Law Vend. 83.* An agreement will not be considered as partly executed, unless the acts done are such as could be done with no other view or design, than to perform the agreement : and if it do not appear, but that the acts done im'ght be done with other views, the agreement will not... | |
 | Law - 554 pages
...the delivery of an abstract, the payment of deposit, or letting alleged purchaser into possession? A. The Acts must be such as could be done with no other design than to complete the Contract, delivery of the abstract or payment of the deposit will not suffice.... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 996 pages
...evidence of an agreement that he should be compensated therefor. It can hardly be said that such an act could be done with no other view or design than to perform a preOpinion. vious agreement on his part. Such an act by a husband does not necessarily refer to or... | |
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The general rule is, that the acts must be such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement, and not such as are merely introductory or ancillary to it. 
