 | David Cato Macrae, Charles John Belcher Hertslet - Bankruptcy - 1852 - 354 pages
...1685), and in Holthouse's Law Dictionary, p. 130, title "Debt," 1846 ; — " The legal signification of debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement, as by a bond for a determinate sum, a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or a rent reserved on... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 780 pages
...contracts include three distinct species ; debts, covenants, and promises. 1. The legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement: as, by a bond for a determinate sum; a bill or note; a special bargain; or a rent reserved on a lease;... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Great Britain - 1866 - 780 pages
...contracts include three distinct species; debts, covenants, and promises. 1. The legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement: as, by a bond for a determinate sum; a bill or note; a special bargain; or a rent reserved on a lease;... | |
 | Charles Daniel Drake - Attachment and garnishment - 1866 - 714 pages
...plain, obvious, and ordinary signification and import." Blackstone says, " The legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement : as bv a bond for a determinate sum ; a bill or note ; a special bar[10] § 13. In New York, where... | |
 | Anthony L. Robertson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 778 pages
...acceptation of ' debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement." (3 Slacketone, 154.) " Debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement. In a less technical sense it is any claim for money, and in a still more enlarged sense, it is any... | |
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1869 - 144 pages
...subjects for the support of the State. It is not founded on contract or agreement. It operates in invltum. A debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement. It originates in and is founded upon contracts express or implied." These decisions were all made before the acts of 1862 were passed, and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...subjects, for the support of the State. It is not founded on contract or agreement. It operates in invitum. A debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement. It originates in and is founded upon contracts express or implied." These decisions were all made before the acts of 1862 were passed, and... | |
 | Law - 1869 - 820 pages
...term debt include a judgment for a fine? Blackstone (vol. 3, 154) says, " the legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement." This, however, is not the popular acceptation of the word. Says the Supreme Court of Massachusetts... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1869 - 694 pages
...contracts include three distinct species : debts, covenants, and promises. 1. The legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement : as by a bond for a determinate sum ; a bill or note, or a rent reserved on a lease ; where the quantity... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...subjects for the support of the State. It is not founded on contract or agreement. It operates in invitum. A debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement. It originates in and is founded upon contracts express or implied." These decisions were all made before the acts of 1862 were passed, and... | |
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