 | John Andrew Graham - Law - 1812 - 96 pages
...would do in attempting to make any other species of contract. . I would ask then, what is a contract ? A contract is an agreement upon sufficient consideration, to do or not totjo a particular tiling ; and there must be a-consideration of some sort or other, to the forming... | |
 | Paraclete Potter - Forms (Law) - 1814 - 276 pages
...172 Of lands and goods, 173 Cletfe'g OF CONTRACTS, AGREEMENTS, AND COVE. NANTS. PRACTICAL REMARKS. A contract is an agreement upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do, a particular thing. Contracts by our laws, are distinguished into agreements by specialty, made by instrument... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 328 pages
...voluntary conveyance of a chattel persona! in possession, without any consideration or equivalent. II. A contract is an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing ; and by such contract, any personal property, either in possession or in action,... | |
 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1821 - 804 pages
...which will frequently involve an inquiry into all the nice technical piirts of a legal contract. " A contract is an agreement upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing.'" And all the contracts of which 1 have spoken, or shall have occasion to speak,... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...consideration. IX. A contract, which usually conveys an interest merely in action, is thus defined ; "an agreement upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing." This contract or agreement may be either express or implied. Express contracts are... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1823 - 728 pages
...something." Blackstone defines a contract, which usually conveys an interest merely in action, thus : " an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing." This contract is merely executory, on which there is a right of action to enforce... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...Of Contracts.* A. CONTRACT, which usually conveys an interest merely in action, is thus defined : " an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do, or not to do, a particular thing." From which definition there arise three points to be contemplated in all contracts... | |
 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827 - 544 pages
...contract, because it is voluntary, and without consideration ; whereas'a contract is defined Jo be an agreement upon sufficient consideration to do, or not to do, a particular a D-iU Civil Francois, torn. 5. Det Donations enlre rift, $ec 4. and 5. and i) I. 6 Drnil... | |
 | Law - 1833 - 514 pages
...aptly, than to the congregated absurdities of syllogistic reasoning in the hands of the schoolmen. A contract is an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing. Now who, that had never studied the law, would suppose that the mere presence of... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...To damages. III. To costs of suit 436—43& CHAPTER XXX. OF TITLE BY GIFT, GRANT, AND CONTRACT. 2. A contract is an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing: and, by such contract, any personal property (either in possession, or in action)... | |
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A contract, which usually conveys an interest merely in action, is thus defined: 'an agreement upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing'. 
