 | Theophilus Parsons - Contracts - 1893 - 928 pages
...stating the true principle, namely, 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." At the... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1032 pages
...(a) to Wennall v. Adney, 3 Bos. & P. 249, " 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, though... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 778 pages
...only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law through the medinm of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by...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... | |
 | Henry Anselm De Colyar - Bail - 1896 - 400 pages
...Adncij (ij) in the following words : — " That an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law...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... | |
 | John Mews - Courts - 1898 - 1006 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... | |
 | John Mews - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 998 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 o£ action if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Darius Harlan Pingrey - Suretyship and guaranty - 1900 - 480 pages
...for discharging the primary debtor,39 because an express promise can only revive a precedent valid consideration which might have been enforced at law,...not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but it can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it was founded never could have... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1046 pages
...and approves of the rule there laid down, "that an express promise can only revive aprecedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law...suspended by some positive rule of law ; but can give nooriginal cause of action If the obligation on which It Is founded never could have been enforced... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1040 pages
...laid down, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration which might hiive been enforced at law through the medium of an Implied promise, had it not been suspend«! by some positive rule of law : bnt can give HIV original cause of action If the obligation... | |
 | Samuel Williston - Contracts - 1903 - 778 pages
...liability and take tway the exemption, because if it wen? not for the exemption, thev would be enforced enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise,...some positive rule of law ; but can give no original at law through the medium of an implied promise. In several of the cues it Is laid down, that to support... | |
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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... 
