| Jeremiah Smith - Municipal corporations - 1898 - 282 pages
...licenses, etc., the sum of $17,444.53. Blackstone (vol. 3, p. 154) says: "The legal acceptation of debt Is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement. " This is given in connection with his treatment of the action of debt. In the constitution it means... | |
| Colorado. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 668 pages
...upon such distinctions. Danielson v. Qude, 11 Colo. 87. Blackstone says, " The legal acceptation of debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement." Commentaries, p. 155. Counsel urge upon our consideration the authority and reasoning of a case in... | |
| William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...contracts include three distinct species: debts, covenants, and promises. i. 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... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1012 pages
...the support of the state. 2eo It is not founded upon 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,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1256 pages
...support of the state. It is not founded upon contract or agreement. It operates in invitum. Whereas a debt is a sum of money due by certain and express...and is founded upon contract, express or implied. City of Camden v. Allen, 26 NJ Law, .198; Lane Co. v. Oregon, 7 Wall. 71, 19 L. Ed. 101; Cooley, Tax'n... | |
| Arizona. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 534 pages
...existing. Railroad Co. v. Bumside, 5 Exch. 129; Burrill on Assessments, p. 647, sec. 427 (4th ed). A debt is "a sum of money due by certain and express agreement." "The distinguishing and necessary feature is, Arizona ! that a fixed and specific quantity is owing,... | |
| Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 894 pages
...support of the State. It is not founded on contract or agreement, but operates in invitum. Whereas a debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement, and originates in or is founded upon contracts express or implied. In Meriivether v. Garrett, 102 II.... | |
| M. E. Dunlap (Counsellor at law) - Law - 1905 - 620 pages
...an account stated, of performing one's duty in any employment with integrity, diligence, and skill. Debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement. A promise is in the nature of a verbal covenant, and wants nothing but the solemnity of writing and... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1350 pages
...subjects, for the support of the state. It is not founded on contract or agreement. It operates in imvitum. A debt is a sum of money due by certain and express...and Is founded upon contract, express or Implied." The foregoing definitions of "taxes" and "debts" were adopted from Pierce v. Boston, 3 Mete. (Mass.)... | |
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