 | Edward Foss - Great Britain - 1870 - 826 pages
...was void because the condition was against the common law, adding, 'And, by God, if the plaintiff was here, he should go to prison till he paid a fine to the king.' (YS 2 Hen. V. p. 5 b.) This is perhaps the only instance of an oath on the bench being reported. The... | |
 | William Forsyth - Criticism - 1874 - 620 pages
...restraint of trade, but added, according to the report in the Year-Book, ' And by God, if the plaintiff was here he should go to prison till he paid a fine to the King.' We read of FitzOsberne, Justiciary of England in 1067, escaping a blow which the irascible Conqueror... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1876 - 692 pages
...him that the obligation is void, because the condition is against the Common Law ; .and per Dieu (>i) if the plaintiff were here he should go to prison till he had made fine to the King." But it does not appear that this dictum met with assent at the time, and... | |
 | Social sciences - 1879 - 844 pages
...contrary to the common law," and, he exclaimed with an oath, and in an outburst of loyal indignation, "If the plaintiff were here he should go to prison till he had paid a fine to the king." [2 Henry V.] Notwithstanding this underlying spirit of freedom, various... | |
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1882 - 354 pages
...years, and there Hull held that the bond was against the common law, and by God, if the plaintiff was here, he should go to prison till he paid a fine to the king." ORIGIN OF SOLICITORS. | HIS branch of legal practice seems to have arisen, in great part, out of the... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1885 - 844 pages
...him that the obligation is void, because the condition is against the common law; and per Dicit (r) if the plaintiff were here he should go to prison till he had made fine to the King." But it does not appear that this dictum met with assent at the time, and... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1889 - 816 pages
...this Hull J. said : " To my mind you might have demurred to him that the obligation is void, because the condition is against the common law; and per Dieu...plaintiff were here he should go to prison till he had made fine to the King" (I). This was not and could not be more than a dictum, and the parties proceeded... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 922 pages
...year, the obligation to lose its force, and said that he did not use his art within the time limited. Hull, J. , said: "In my opinion, you might have demurred...should go to prison till he paid a fine to the king." Y. В., 2 Hen. V. fol. 5, pi. 26. In 1841, Lord Langdale, master of the rolls, held that a contract... | |
 | Edward William Brabrook - Co-operation Great Britain - 1898 - 234 pages
...of dyer for the space of half a year. Justice Hull said, the bond is void, for the condition of it is against the Common Law: and per Dieu, if the plaintiff were here, he should g0 t0 prison until he had paid a fine to the king. It is possible that there are other instances where... | |
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... per Dieu, if the plaintiff were here, he should go to prison till he paid a fine to the king. 
