 | Edmund Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1859 - 540 pages
...YEAR. Sect. 4. " No action shall be brought whereby to charge . . . any person upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement, &c." (as in the case of executors, supra.) The statute does not apply where the contract... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Banks and banking - 1859 - 654 pages
...consideration in such cases, providing the undertaking be ' in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized,' makes such precaution useless." — Grand Laws of Banking* 9. SEASONING FROM STATISTICAL TABLES. —... | |
 | Solomon Atkinson - Conveyancing - 1841 - 852 pages
...be brought, or some " memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by " the party to be charged therewith, or some other person by him " thereunto lawfully authorized." The statute therefore requires two conditions,—First, That the agreement shall be in writing; Secondly,... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 860 pages
...action shall be brought .... upon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements or hereditaments .... unless the promise or agreement upon which such action...be charged therewith, or some other person by him therennto lawfully authorized. Morehead and Brown's Statutes, vol. 1, page 734. The instrument in question... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 800 pages
...statute enacts that no action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof, unless, &c. If one party refuses to carry out the agreement after receiving some portion of the consideration... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1652 pages
...framed after the 4th section of the English act, and denies action upon the contracts it enumerates 'unless the promise or agreement upon which such action...be charged therewith, or some other person by him or her thereunto lawfully authorized.' Code 1880, § 1292; Code 1892, § 4225. Among the contracts... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 892 pages
...brought upon any contract for the sale of lands, etc., or the making of any lease thereof for a longer term than one year, or upon any agreement which is...one year from the making thereof, unless the promise shall be in writing, etc." Code 1880, § 1292. The same provision is found in Hutch. Code 637 ; in... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 728 pages
...things, that "no action shall be brought whereby to charge any person * * * upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof * * *, unless the same shall be reduced to writing, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be signed by the party... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 806 pages
...action shall be brought whereby to charge any defendant upon any contract for the sale of lands, &c., or upon any agreement which is not to be performed within the space of one year, &c., unless the agreement, &c., be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1950 - 504 pages
.... . . upon any contract or sale of lands tenements or hereditaments ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing... | |
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... unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized. 
