| Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1228 pages
...followed since, that : "An express promise, therefore, as it would seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had • law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded never could... | |
| George Purcell Costigan - Contracts - 1921 - 1544 pages
...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...some positive rule of law; but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation, on which it is founded, never could have been enforced at law,... | |
| Samuel Williston - Contracts - 1922 - 1092 pages
...consideration, which might hftvp been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promjsB^-uadit not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no original right~3f-Bct>ion, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 972 pages
...where it is said: "An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law...action if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision. "In the... | |
| Ernest Wilson Huffcut, Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - Contracts - 1925 - 872 pages
...note) which announced the proper rule to be that an express promise "can only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law...action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law though not barred by any legal maxim or statute provision." Under this... | |
| Law - 1883 - 538 pages
...accord with this one, for there the reception of the money on Sunday constituted a precedent, good consideration which might have been enforced at law...it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, and therefore the express promise, to wit, the mortgage, revived the precedent good consideration.... | |
| Law - 1882 - 578 pages
...statement of the law can well be made. Itwas said: "An express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law...implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positire rule of law ; but can give no-original right of action, if theobligation on which it is founded... | |
| Law - 1891 - 580 pages
...express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but gives no oause of action where the antecedent obligation could not be enforced at law." At the present'time,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1254 pages
...person ought to pay. An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law...original right of action If the obligation on which It le founded never could have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statuti1... | |
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