 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1834 - 626 pages
...revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medi. ,um of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can have no original right of action if the obligation on which it is formed, never could have been enforced... | |
 | William Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 678 pages
...consideration, which might have been enforced at low, through the medium of an implied promise, hud it not been suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give no original right of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Law - 1840 - 488 pages
...revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute. Therefore a declaration, charging the defendant on a promise to repay the plaintiff money laid out... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1841 - 1040 pages
...revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some...of action if the obligation on which it is founded CO -M'Ar«i' v. Reid, 2 M. & Sc. 89. cited ante, 43, n. (o). (g) Ante, 15; and see Sykes v. (k) See... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 564 pages
...only revive a precedent good consieration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision." It would seem, therefore, that the case of Gibson v. Dickie, (3 II. & S. 433), where a... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 528 pages
...revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some...law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute. Therefore a declaration, charging the defendant on a promise to repay the plaintiff money laid out... | |
 | Francis Towers Streeten, Ewen Henry Cameron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 716 pages
...revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some...action if the obligation, on which it is founded, could never have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statutory provision.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Edmund Saunders - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 602 pages
...revive a pre" cedent good consideration, which " might have been enforced at law " through the medium of an implied " promise, had it not been suspended "...though not barred by any legal " maxim or statute provision." 11 A. & E. 438. 447. Eastwood v. Kenyan. 3 P. & D. 276. SC The case above cited of Lee... | |
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P. 249] , and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended... 
