 | John Impey - Civil procedure - 1790 - 812 pages
...made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interfft therein. 5. And, lc[/}!y, where there it any agreement that is not to be performed within a...the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal ajfumpfit is void. Affumpfit lies in many cafes where debt lies, and in many where debt doth not lie.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 506 pages
...contract or fale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interafl: therein. 5. And, laftly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed...the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal affumfftt is void. FROM thefe exprefs contracts the rranfition is eafy to thofc that are only Implied... | |
 | Charles Viner - Law - 1793 - 682 pages
...enacted, that no action Inall be brought, &c. whereby to charge any pcrfon, &c. upon any agreement which is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof, unlefs * the agreement be in writing ; and an action wu brought, upon an agreement by the defendant... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 588 pages
...contract or fale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any intereft therein. 5. And, laftly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed...the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal affumpftt is void (3). FROM « 4 Rep. 92. f See book II. ch. 30. (3) Thefe provifions in the ftatute... | |
 | Thomas Walter Williams - Law - 1816 - 1048 pages
...contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And, lastly, Where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. 3 Black. 15", 158. Besides these express contracts there... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And, lastly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. From these express contracts the transition is easy to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...contract or sale is made of lauds, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And lastly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making hereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. From these express contracts the. transition... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And, lastly, where there is any agreement, that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. These provisions in the statute have produced many decisions,... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And lastly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. FROM these express contracts the transition is easy to... | |
 | Thomas Lee - Law - 1825 - 768 pages
...Where any contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. Where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. Observations Such contracts are express ; but assumpsit will also lie upon those contracts which are... | |
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Evidence, therefore, of the agreement cannot be received without the writing or secondary evidence of its contents : 1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof ; 2. 
