 | Asa Kinne - 1865 - 340 σελίδες
...delivered by HUSTON, J. — As long ago as the time of LORD HALE, it was decided, Carthew, 252, 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 void, and only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; and this has... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1868 - 658 σελίδες
...Code of 1851, was absolutely void, and its payment cannot be enforced against the corporation, Aryu. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute. Is void ; and a repeal of the prohibitory act does not render valid a contract made while... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 σελίδες
...contract 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 a penalty on the offender. The penalty implies a prohibition."* Moreover, the illegality being apparent on the face of the instrument... | |
 | 1888 - 564 σελίδες
...this is a prohibition of the act. In Bartlett v. Vinor, Carth. 252; SC, Skinn, 322. Holt, CJ, said : " Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by any statute is a void contract, chough the statute does not mentiou that it shall... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1871 - 784 σελίδες
...only have a penalty annexed to its performance. The doctrine, as laid down by Lord Holt, Is, " that every contract made for or about any matter or thing,...any statute, is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty... | |
 | India - 1878 - 710 σελίδες
...appears to us to fall within the rule stated by Chief Justice Holt in liartlett v. Vinor (d), viz., ' every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by Statute, is a void contract"' (e). (4) Thus, when the plaintiff had contracted with the Government... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1875 - 724 σελίδες
...payment cannot be enforced against the corporation. Dively v. City of Cídar Falls, 21 Iowa, 565. 274. Every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by statute, is void ; and a repeal of the prohibitory act does not render valid a contract made while... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1875 - 796 σελίδες
...Company, 1 Story, 122, says : " I adopt the language of Lord HOLT and Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, that every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited or made unlawful by statute is a void contract, although the statute does not mention it, but only... | |
 | William Wait - 1878 - 1026 σελίδες
...statute (mala prohibita), no longer exists. See Hitt v. Spear, 50 K H. 253, 277 ; SC, 9 Am. Eep. 205. And every contract made for or about any matter or thing,...any statute, is a void contract, though the statute does not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because the penalty... | |
 | John William Smith - 1878 - 596 σελίδες
...r. Rowlands, 2 M. & W. 149. 1 " Every contract," said Lord Holt, in Bartlett r. Viner, Carth. 252, "made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited...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... | |
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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... 
