 | New York (State). Court of Chancery - Equity - 1847 - 732 pages
...the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing, and be subscribed by the party by whom the sale is to be made. (2 RS 135, § 8.) The defendants offer, though signed by them, constituted no agreement. (Burnet v.... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 776 pages
...all contracts for the sale of lands or any interest in lands are void unless in writing, and signed by the party by whom the sale is to be made. or by some person thereunto by him lawfully authorized in writing. In an action at law, an oral contract... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1857 - 614 pages
...Statutes (2 RS 135, § 8,) changed the rule so as to require a subscription to a memorandum, or contract, by the party by whom the sale is to be made, or his authorized agent. When this is sufficient, the vendee appears to be bound substantially as by a... | |
 | John Duer, New York (State). Superior Court (New York) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 754 pages
...unless the same, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing, and be subscribed by the party by whom the sale is to be made, or by an agent of such party, lawfully authorized." (2 RS 135, §§ 8, 9.) There are some of the objections... | |
 | Francis Edward Cornwell - Civil law - 1859 - 702 pages
...contracts for the sale of land, or a note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, to be in writing, and subscribed by the party by whom the sale is made or his agent. And where the auctioneer pinned a letter from the owner of lots to be sold, addressed... | |
 | John Willard - Conveyancing - 1861 - 718 pages
...is void, unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing, and subscribed by the party by whom the sale is to be made, or by his agent lawfully authorized. And where the contract has not been signed^ either by the vendor or his... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1864 - 622 pages
...he void, unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof, expressing the consideration, be in writing and subscribed by the party by whom the sale is to be made. The case comes within one or other of these provisions. If what transpired at the auction when the... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 812 pages
...the renders, for the sale of land is void unless the contract, or some note or memorandum tbereof, expressing the consideration, is in writing and subscribed by the party by whom Ae sale or lease is to be made, or his authorized agent. Chancery, 1843, HcWhorter v. McMahan, 10 Paige,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 724 pages
...contract of sale of lands shall be in writing, and that such writing express the consideration and be subscribed by the party by whom the sale is to be made, or by his agent lawfully authorized. The evidence of the authority may be by paiol. Neither a written authority... | |
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Every contract for the leasing for a longer period than' one year or for the sale of any lands, or any interest in lands, shall be void unless the contract, or some note or memorandum thereof. expressing the consideration, is in writing and subscribed... 
