 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1826 - 708 pages
...person ought-tu pay. An express promise, therefore, as it should seera, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law...promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule ot law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded nerer could... | |
 | 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...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." 56. Where... | |
 | Law - 1840 - 488 pages
...consideration will not support an express promise. 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, though... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, John Leycester Adolphus - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 1144 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,... | |
 | Francis Towers Streeten, Ewen Henry Cameron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 716 pages
...; 4 Ad.&E. 107; 5N.&M.410. MORAL CONSIDERATION. 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, could never have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 528 pages
...consideration will not support an express promise. 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, though... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 564 pages
...to be correct in general, " that an exSrese promise can only revive a precedent good consieration, which might have been enforced at law through the...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, though... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Edmund Saunders - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 602 pages
...pronounced to be correct in general, viz. " that an ex" press promise can only revive a pre" cedent good consideration, which " might have been enforced at...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... | |
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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... 
