 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 580 pages
...defence of this action is, that the note in suit is void by the statute of frauds (5), which provides that " No action shall be brought, whereby to charge the defendant, upon any special promise, to answer for the debt, default or misdoings of another person, unless the agreement,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 560 pages
...be made either by deed or parol. By the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, it is, however, enacted "that no action shall be brought, whereby to charge the defendant, upon any special promise, to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, unless the agreement... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, William Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 510 pages
...plaintiffs ought not to have and maintain their action, because, by the statute of frauds, it is enacted, that no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of any other person, unless such agreement,... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 982 pages
...point of law has been raised by the Advocate-General on the 4th section of the Statute of Frauds, which enacts that " no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant, " upon any special promise, to answer for the debt, default, or (1) 12 CB, 801. (3) Bonrke's Rap., 367. (8; 1... | |
 | Law - 1869 - 820 pages
...into effect. That act following the 4th section of the English statute, 29 Car. II., c. 3, provided that no action shall be brought " whereby to charge the defendant, upon any special promise to answer for the debt or default of another, unless the agreement upon which such... | |
 | Montgomery Hunt Throop - Frauds, Statute of - 1870 - 852 pages
...authorized. OHIO. Revised Statutes ; Swan and Critchfield's edition, 1860. Chapter 47. [Act of 1810.] Sec. 5. That no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person; or to charge any... | |
 | Horace Smith, Thomas Spooner Soden - Landlord and tenant - 1871 - 432 pages
...two third parts at the least of the full improved value of the thing demised." And the 4th section enacts, " That no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them, unless... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 632 pages
...published next morning, it was for the defendant." The section of the statute of frauds which provides that no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, unless the agreement... | |
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no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall... 
