| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1920 - 676 σελίδες
...continuance of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition, which necessarily requires someone capable of making a repetition. Obviously this can...can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man." So in the present case the executrix could not create a new liability where none existed before. She... | |
| Ernest Wilson Huffcut, Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - 1894 - 762 σελίδες
...there is no mutuality. The continuance of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition, which necessarily requires some one capable of making a...can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man. If the payees named in the notes may be held agents of the promisor, with power to contract for work... | |
| Francis Marion Burdick - 1902 - 338 σελίδες
...In the language of a learned judge : " The continuance of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition. Obviously this can no more be done by a dead man than a contract can be made by a dead man in the first instance." It is often said that the death of the offerer operates... | |
| Alexander Haring - 1910 - 542 σελίδες
...there is no mutuality. The continuance of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition, which necessarily requires some one capable of making a repetition. Obviously this can no rhore be done by a dead man than a contract can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man. If the... | |
| Alexander Haring - 1911 - 542 σελίδες
...there is no mutuality. The continuance of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition, which necessarily requires some one capable of making a...can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man. . if the payees named in the notes may be held agents of the promisor, with power to contract for work... | |
| Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912 - 676 σελίδες
...there is no mutuality. The continuance of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition, which necessarily requires some one capable of making a...can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man. If the payees named in the notes may be held agents of the promisor, with power to contract for work... | |
| William Albert Keener - 1914 - 1256 σελίδες
...Until acted upon, there is no mutuality, and, being only an offer, and susceptible of revocation at any time before being acted upon, it follows that...can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man." his promise or offer. The insanity of Dr. Beach rendered him, in law, as incapable of making a contract... | |
| Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - 1917 - 970 σελίδες
...is no mutuality. The continuance 670 of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition, which necessarily requires some one capable of making a...can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man. If the payees named in the notes may be held agents of the promisor, with power to contract for work... | |
| William Meade Fletcher - 1917 - 1150 σελίδες
...necessarily so, for "the continuance of an offer is in the nature of its constant repetition, which necessarily requires some one capable of making a...contract can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man."7 Ch. Div. 160; Household Fire & Car- Household Fire & Carriage Ace. Ins. riage Ace. Ins. Co.... | |
| James Calvin Reed - 1917 - 652 σελίδες
...constant repetition, which necessarily requires some one capable of making a repetition. Ob1 viously this can no more be done by a dead man than a contract...can, in the first instance, be made by a dead man. If the payees named in the notes may be held agents of the promisor, with power to contract for work... | |
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