 | Claude Charles Molyneux Plumptre - 1879 - 326 σελίδες
...certain penalty. In such cases the rule is as follows:— Penalty implies a Prohibition. RULE 73.—Every contract made for, or about, any matter or thing which...it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the defaulter ; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 888 σελίδες
...firkins not branded according to lawHere the court quote Lord HOLT as saying " that every contract made about, any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is avoid contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but... | |
 | 1886 - 1942 σελίδες
...The general rule is laid down by HOLT, CJ : "Every contract made for or about any matter or tiling which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute is...but only inflicts a penalty on the offender; because the penalty implies a prohibition." Jiartlett v. Veii'rr, Garth. 252. In Smith v. Mnwhood, 14 Mees.... | |
 | Hugh Barclay - 1880 - 922 σελίδες
...is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts...because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there be no prohibiting words in the statute. — Bartlett, Carth. 252 ; Brown on Sale, p. 131. CONTRACT... | |
 | Ceylon. Supreme Court - 1880 - 254 σελίδες
...a penalty, because such a penalty implies a ' prohibition.' In Barilet v. Vinor, HOLT, CJ observed, 'Every ' contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohi' bited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract, ' though the statute itself does... | |
 | 1882 - 264 σελίδες
...traveling expenses. But the loan of money for the purpose set forth in the plaintiff's claim was illegal. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited, and made unlawful by a statute, is void. Badgley v. Beale, 3 Watts, 264. Money lent to be employed in an unlawful game,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1882 - 706 σελίδες
...transferee ; and the language of Lord Holt was in that case quoted with approval, where ho says : " 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 doth not mention that it shall be so, but... | |
 | 1882 - 1098 σελίδες
...appears, to us to fall within the rule st.itoil by Chief Justice Holt in Bartlett v. Vinor (1) : " Every contract made for or " about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlaw" ful by statute, is a void contract." See also Domats' Civil Law, Book I., Tit. 18, section 4,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1884 - 1000 σελίδες
...chapter 9, title 20, page 516 of the General Statutes. It is equally clear as a proposition of law that '"'every contract made for or about any matter or...that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on flu' offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory x>rds in the... | |
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Nota, 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 doth not mention that it shall be so but only inflicts a penalty on the offender; because a... 
