 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery, Henry Maddock, Thomas Charles Geldart - Equity - 1817 - 686 pages
...only to be spontaneously done. In Hall v. Hardy (d), the Matter of the Rolls says, there have been an hundred precedents where if the husband, for a valuable consideration, covenants that his wife shall join with him in a fine, the Court has decreed the husband to perform his covenant;... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1826 - 698 pages
...received to the plaintiff's use. Master of the Rolls. There have been a hundred prece- Where the dents, where, if the husband for a valuable consideration covenants, that the wife shall join with him in a fine, the rideration cocourt has decreed [B] the husband to do it, for that he has hU... | |
 | Roper Stote Donnison Roper - Husband and wife - 1826 - 660 pages
...his wife to levy a fine ; and Sir Joseph Jekyll decreed to that effect, and said, " That there had been a hundred precedents, where, if the husband for a valuable consideration covenanted that his wife should join with him in a fine, the Court had decreed the husband to do it,... | |
 | Law - 1836 - 522 pages
...Hardy, goes still farther. ' There have been an hundred precedents,' says the Master of the Rolls, ' where if the husband, for a valuable consideration, covenants that the wife shall join with him in a fine, the Court has decreed the husband to do it.' These ancient decisions are evidently... | |
 | Thomas Platt - Covenants - 1829 - 720 pages
...compel him to a specific performance of the award. The Master of the Rolls declared that there had been a hundred precedents, where, if the husband for a valuable consideration covenanted that his wife should join him in a fine, the court had decreed him to do it; for that he... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edward Younge, Sir John Jervis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1830 - 614 pages
...according to his covenant. In Hall v. Hardy (a), Sir Joseph Jekyll, then Master of the Rolls, says, " There have been a hundred precedents, where, if the...husband for a valuable consideration covenants that his wife shall join with him in a fine, the Court has decreed the husband to do it, for, that he has... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 562 pages
...in opinion. In Hall vs. Hardy, 3 P. Wms. R. 13!), Sir Joseph Jekyl, MR, said : "There have been an hundred pre"cedents where, if the husband, for a valuable considera"tion, covenants that his wife shall join with him in a fine, "the court has decreed the husband to do it, for that he "has... | |
 | Edmund Chisholm-Batten - Contracts - 1849 - 472 pages
...decision can hardly be now relied on (d). In Hall v. Hardy (e), Sir Joseph Jekyll, MR, said, "there had been a hundred precedents where, if the husband for...valuable consideration covenants that the wife shall join with him in a fine, the Court has decreed the husband to do it, for that he has undertaken it and must... | |
 | John Edward Bright - Husband and wife - 1849 - 650 pages
...his wife to levy a fine ; and Sir Joseph Jekyll decreed to that effect, and said, " That there had been a hundred precedents, where, if the husband for a valuable consideration covenanted that his wife should join with him in a fine, the Court had decreed the husband to do it,... | |
 | John Potter Stockton - Equity - 1858 - 652 pages
...plaintiff and his heirs. The answer did not set up the refusal of the wife. The master of the rolls says, " there have been a hundred precedents, where, if the...valuable consideration covenants that the wife shall join with him in a fine, the court has decreed the husband to do it, for that he has undertaken it, and... | |
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There have been a hundred precedents where, if the husband for a valuable consideration covenants that the wife shall join with him in a fine, the court has decreed the husband to do it ; for that he has undertaken it, and must lie by it if he does not... 
