 | Archibald John Stephens - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 1072
...sue for the same, by action of debt, bill, or information, in any of the superior courts of record. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohi- Every contract bited and made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, although the sta-... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 986
...Vinor,(a) and of Lord Ellenborough, in Langton v. Hughes.(li) In Barflett v. Vinor, Lord Holt says, " every contract made for or about any matter or thing...made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract, thougb *the statute itself does not mention that it shall be so, but [*86] only inflicts a penalty... | |
 | John Duer - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 822
...since been directly impeached, and in many cases has been distinctly admitted, and followed, that " every contract made for, or about any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by statute, is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...Ewing v. Osbaldiston (i) : where Lord Cottenham, C. said : " In Bartlett v. Vinor, Lord Holt says : 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... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...Bartlett v. Vinor, as quoted by Lord Cottenham in Ewing v. Osbaldiston', was relied upon, viz. 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... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...Bartlett v. Vinor, as quoted by Lord Cottenham in Ewing v. Osbaldiston 1, was relied upon, viz. 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... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...criminal act. No principle rests upon a surer basis than that which has long prevailed at common law, that every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by statute, is a void contract; that assumpsit cannot be sustained on an illegal consideration.... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...the contract was not void. But in the more recent case of Bartlett vs. Vinor, Holt, CJ, held, that every contract made for or about any matter or thing...statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself does not mention it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty; because a penalty implies a prohibition,... | |
 | John William Smith - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...Carthew, 252., which is always referred to as a standard authority on this subject, the LCJ HOLT says, " Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts... | |
 | William Paley - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 732
...case is to be decided, is very clearly expressed by Holt, CJ, in Bartlett v. Viner, Carth. 252 — ' Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts... | |
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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... 
