 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Henry Maddock, Thomas Charles Geldart - Equity - 1817 - 686 pages
...There was a moral obligation in L—e to provide for the Plaintiff, she having no means of support. A promise, to pay a Debt barred by the Statute of Limitations, or a Debt barred by a Certificate, or to pay for the nursing of an illegitimate Child, has been held good,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1865 - 828 pages
...an express promise, except in cases where there had once existed a legal obligation, as in case of a debt barred by the statute of limitations or by a discharge in bankruptcy. This is so said in some reported cases, but no case is cited in which the question involved and decided... | |
 | Henry Dutton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 602 pages
...the express one, had it not been for some privilege or exemption, by some positive rule of law. Thus, a promise to pay a debt barred by the Statute of limitations, or by a discharge under an act of insolvency, or by an infant after he arrives at full age, to pay a debt which was contracted... | |
 | Edward Erastus Deacon - Bankruptcy - 1838 - 648 pages
...the whole claim, if the surrender of a voluntary bond be a good consideration for a new bond, and if a promise to pay a debt barred by the Statute of Limitations, or by the bankrupt's certificate, be good, as being founded on the moral obligation, is there not a sufficient... | |
 | Basil Montagu, William Scrope Ayrton - Bankruptcy - 1839 - 870 pages
...voluntary bond cancelled is a good consideration for a new bond,—if the moral obligation will support a promise to pay a debt barred by the statute of limitations or by a bankrupt's certificate, is there or is there not sufficient consideration in this case to support the... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 1104 pages
...afterwards made. A moral obligation to do an act, may support an express promise to perform it, as a promise to pay a debt barred by the statute of limitations, or created during infancy. In these and other cases of imperfect moral obligation, which might be supposed,... | |
 | William Francis Finlason - Parties to actions - 1847 - 304 pages
...of which the principal case is the representative. We refer to cases in which defendant has promised to pay a debt barred by the Statute of Limitations, or by a certificate in bankruptcy, or contracted during infancy or coverture. In the first three of these cases... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1847 - 438 pages
...will without neglect Promises to pay debts barred by the Statute of Limitations. Another case is that of a promise to pay a debt barred by the statute of Limitations ; but, as I shall have occasion to speak again of that statute before the conclusion of... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...policy. A promise to pay after the interdict is removed, will be valid and may be enforced. The case of a promise to pay a debt barred by the statute of limitations, or a promise by a widow or an adult, to refund a loan of money made during coverture or infancy, are given... | |
 | Ontario. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 600 pages
...establish that such a promise is not nudum pactum: indeed I do not see why it should be so, any more than a promise to pay a debt barred by the Statute of Limitations, or apromise by a certificated bankrupt to pay a debt from which he is discharged by his bankruptcy. The... | |
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... and performance of the promise will satisfy an actual or supposed or asserted duty of the promisee to the beneficiary, or a right of the beneficiary against the promisee which has been barred by the Statute of Limitations or by a discharge in bankruptcy,... 
