 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 doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender, because a...  Montgomery County Law Reporter - Page 176by Freeland Gotwalts Hobson, John Weiler Bickel, Abraham Hunsicker Hendricks, Albert Rosenberger Place, Nelson P. Fegley - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...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 penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no " prohibitory words in the statute."... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1530 pages
...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 implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting words in a statute." So>... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 728 pages
...made unlawful by any statute*, is a void contract, although the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a penalty implies a prohibition, though there are not any prohibitory words in the statute.... | |
 | George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...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 implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibitory words in the statute. And... | |
 | Mungo Ponton Brown - Contracts - 1821 - 656 pages
...made unlawful by any statute is a 1 void contract, thougli the statute itself doth not mention that it ' shall be so, but only inflicts a penalty on the offender ; because a ' penalty implies a prohibition, though there are no prohibiting ' words in the statute'... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...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 implies a prohibition, though there are 551. See also 2 P. Wms. 170. Doug. 260.... | |
 | S. F. T. Wilde, Charles Barton - Commercial law - 1826 - 660 pages
...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 penalty implies a prohibition (,//)." (?) Cockshot v. Bennette, 2 Durnf. and E. 763. Bryant... | |
 | Charles Barton, Samuel Francis Thomas Wilde - Conveyancing - 1826 - 658 pages
...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 penalty implies a prohibition (/rV (?) Cockshot v. Bennette, 2 Durnf. and E. 763. Bryant... | |
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