 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1809 - 676 pages
...laid down by ~ v. Lord Chief Justice Holt in Bartlett v. Pinor, Car*A. 252. in SMITH, these words: " 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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1530 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1817 - 728 pages
...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, which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so,... | |
 | George Long - 1821 - 294 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - 1821 - 656 pages
...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 ' thing which 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,... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - 1824 - 680 pages
...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 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... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - 1826 - 660 pages
...Geo. 3. c. 58, inflicting a penalty for selling pernicious drugs (w). For per Holt, Ch. 3. (.r), " 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - 1829 - 732 pages
...manner, by Lord Holt, in Bariktt v. Viner.* In that case, that learned judge expresses himself thus: " 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1831 - 686 pages
...remuneration. It would be inconsistent. In Barti leit v. Vlnor, Lord Chief Justice Holt said (ft): " 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... | |
 | Charles Petersdorff - 1831 - 592 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
