 | William Selwyn - 1812 - 700 pages
...matter or tiling, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute1, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition, thongh there are not any... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1530 pages
...enactment is equivalent to a positive prohibition. For we are told by Lord Holt (Carthew, 252) " that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...is a •void- contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 pages
...Simony.— Simony is the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &c. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing,...made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the... | |
 | George Long - 1821 - 294 pages
...to an absolute avoidance of the contract. It has been laid down by Lord Chief Justice Holt(d), that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - 1821 - 656 pages
...Morison and Williie has long been established. It was laid down in express terms by Lord Holt, ' that every contract made for, or about any matter or '...is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a 1 void contract, thougli the statute itself doth not mention that it ' shall be so, but only inflicts... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - 1824 - 680 pages
...shortly those which are declared void by statute; and here it may be remarked, as a general rule, that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...statute, is a void contract, though the .statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1824 - 838 pages
...five shillings for procuring the loan of a hundred Cartl>. 251. pounds, that such contract is void, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so. f Sect. 81. By 53 Geo. 3. c. 141. s. 9. it is enacted, "That all Solicitors, &c. " and every solicitors... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1831 - 774 pages
...within . — Simony is the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &e. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute11, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - 1831 - 592 pages
...mony. 1 S'niony ¡3 the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &c. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful hy any st.itnte is a void contract, alii ough the statute itself does not mention that it shall be... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 pages
...price, there being no fraud on the revenue (e). But in Hurt It-It v. Vinor (J"), Holt, CJ, observed, "every contract made for, or about any matter or thing...itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflict a penalty on the defaulter; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory... | |
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Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... 
