Ruling Cases, Volume 6Robert Campbell Stevens, 1895 - Annotations and citations (Law) |
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Page 252 - charge the defendant upon any special promise * to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person ; or to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage; or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them; or upon any
Page 307 - that no action shall be brought upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof,
Page 608 - and hath no remedy over, there the law will excuse him ; but where the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 494 - and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any Court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which the wager shall have been made
Page 30 - The Exchequer Chamber in 1875 defined ' consideration' as follows: ' A valuable consideration, in the sense of the law, may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit, accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other.
Page 751 - costs of this suit, when so taxed; and (providing for the costs being less than the arrears of rent and expenses of the lease) let the residue of such costs be paid by the defendant to the plaintiff. And any of the parties are to be at liberty to apply.
Page 75 - (1) That a married woman shall be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing, by will or otherwise, of any real or personal property, as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a feme sole, without the intervention of a trustee; (2)
Page 622 - duty upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract, had its origin in the dictum of the Court in
Page 494 - provided always that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any subscription or contribution or agreement to subscribe or contribute for or towards any plate, prize, or sum of money to be awarded to the winner or winners of any lawful game, sport, pastime, or exercise.
Page 26 - A valuable consideration, in the sense of the law, may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility, given, suffered, or undertaken by the other.