 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1090 pages
...33 Ind. App. 609; McNeal v. Waco, 33 SW 322, 89 Tex. 83; In re Nowell (DC) 99 P. 931. Bouvier says a debt is "a sum of money due by certain and express agreement." Neither does the word "loss" have a hard and fast meaning. "Failure to keep that which one has is a... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1048 pages
...may he created, or for what purpose. Blackstone ( volume 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 710 pages
...a sum certain," and cites 1 Leon. 208. And Blacketone (3 Com. 154,) says, "the legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement; as by a bond for a determinate sura, a bill or note, &C. "The non-payment of these is an injury, for... | |
 | South Dakota. Supreme Court - Court rules - 1900 - 736 pages
...Court—CORSON, PJ [US. D. It is x 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,... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 938 pages
...above referred to, after quoting Bluckstone'e definition, to the effect that "The legal acceptation of a debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement," said: "In the constitution it means any debt created by contract, exprese or implied; any voluntary... | |
 | Henry James Holthouse - Law - 1999 - 504 pages
...has sustained de propriis.—3 Bac. Ab. 25.] bonis as the DEBT (debitum). 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... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - Law - 2000 - 288 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;... | |
 | 1921 - 1588 pages
...created by contract. Blackstone, the master of exact legal definition, says: "The legal acceptance of debt is a sum of money due by certain and express agreement" (3 Com. 155) ; or, "Any contract, in short, whereby a determinate sum of money becomes due to any person,... | |
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The legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement... 
