 | 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... | |
 | Sir William Searle Holdsworth - Law - 1926 - 546 pages
...a person ought to pay." They maintained that " an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law...of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by a positive rule of law, but can give no original right of action, if the obligation on which it is... | |
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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... 
