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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... "
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and ... - Page 246
by Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - 1826
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The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 160

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...
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Cases on the Law of Contracts, Part 1

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,...
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A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts

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...
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Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 133

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...
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Selected Cases on the Law of Contracts

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...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 16

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....
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 15

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...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 32

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,...
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Decisions of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, Volume 1; Volume 7

Nova Scotia. Supreme Court, John Morris Geldert, James Macdonald Oxley - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 582 pages
...(including a promise by note when in the hands of the original payee) 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." The instances...
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Atlantic Reporter, Volume 55

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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