 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - 1826 - 706 頁
...person ought to pay. An' express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent gaod consideration, which might have been enforced at law...some positive rule of law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded never i nulii have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - 1826 - 708 頁
...subsequent eiprest promise, such a person ought-tu pay. An express promise, therefore, as it should seera, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which...promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule ot law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded nerer could... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1829 - 526 頁
...obligation is a sufficient consideration to support an assumpsit is denied to be law. The true rule is that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which could have beenenforced at law, thro' the medium of an implied promise, but cannot create an original... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1834 - 626 頁
...3 B. & P. 249; this conclusion is arrived at: "an express promise therefore it should seem oanfonly revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medi. ,um of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can have... | |
 | William Johnson - 1837 - 678 頁
...summed up in a note to 3 Bos. and Pull. 249. " An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, ciui only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at low, through the medium of an implied promise, hud it not been suspended by some positive rule of law... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1841 - 1040 頁
...due notice of its dishonour, is liable if he subsequently promise payment (o). In genera], however, an express promise can only revive a precedent good...of action if the obligation on which it is founded CO -M'Ar«i' v. Reid, 2 M. & Sc. 89. cited ante, 43, n. (o). (g) Ante, 15; and see Sykes v. (k) See... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Erskine Perry, Henry Davison - 1841 - 734 頁
...case of Wcitnall v. Adnej/(ti), and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, " that an express promise can only revive a precedent...good consideration, which might have been enforced at lawthrough the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law,... | |
 | Francis Towers Streeten, Ewen Henry Cameron - 1843 - 716 頁
...debts. Hall v. Middletan, 5 Law J. Rep. (NS) KB 13 ; 4 Ad.&E. 107; 5N.&M.410. MORAL CONSIDERATION. An express promise can only revive a precedent good...action if the obligation, on which it is founded, could never have been enforced at law, though not barred by any legal maxim or statutory provision.... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 頁
...those in which an express promise may effectually re- j^,™".5'" vive a precedent goodconsideration, which might have been enforced at law, through the...it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, as in the cases, already adverted to, of bankruptcy and infancy; or where a debt is barred by the Statute... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1854 - 780 頁
...that conceding the money to have been paid either before or since the divorce was obtained, was this a precedent good consideration which might have been...of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by that rule of law which denies the validity of the wife's contracts made during coverture. The item... | |
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An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, can only revive a precedent good consideration which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law, but can give no original... 
