 | William Selwyn - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...matter or tiling, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute1, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition, thongh there are not any... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - عدد الصفحات: 1530
...enactment is equivalent to a positive prohibition. For we are told by Lord Holt (Carthew, 252) " that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...is a •void- contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 728
...Simony.— Simony is the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &c. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing,...made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only infficts a penalty on the... | |
 | George Long - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...to an absolute avoidance of the contract. It has been laid down by Lord Chief Justice Holt(d), that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...Morison and Williie has long been established. It was laid down in express terms by Lord Holt, ' that every contract made for, or about any matter or '...is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a 1 void contract, thougli the statute itself doth not mention that it ' shall be so, but only inflicts... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 680
...shortly those which are declared void by statute; and here it may be remarked, as a general rule, that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...statute, is a void contract, though the .statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 838
...five shillings for procuring the loan of a hundred Cartl>. 251. pounds, that such contract is void, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so. f Sect. 81. By 53 Geo. 3. c. 141. s. 9. it is enacted, "That all Solicitors, &c. " and every solicitors... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 774
...within . — Simony is the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &e. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute11, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...mony. 1 S'niony ¡3 the corrupt presentation of a person to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, &c. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful hy any st.itnte is a void contract, alii ough the statute itself does not mention that it shall be... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 850
...price, there being no fraud on the revenue (e). But in Hurt It-It v. Vinor (J"), Holt, CJ, observed, "every contract made for, or about any matter or thing...itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflict a penalty on the defaulter; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory... | |
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Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a penalty... 
