 | John Impey - Civil procedure - 1790 - 812 pages
...made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interfft therein. 5. And, lc[/}!y, where there it any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal ajfumpfit is void. Affumpfit lies in many cafes where debt lies, and in many... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 506 pages
...contract or fale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interafl: therein. 5. And, laftly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal affumfftt is void. FROM thefe exprefs contracts the rranfition is eafy to... | |
 | Charles Viner - Law - 1793 - 682 pages
...enacted, that no action Inall be brought, &c. whereby to charge any pcrfon, &c. upon any agreement which is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof, unlefs * the agreement be in writing ; and an action wu brought, upon an agreement by the defendant... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 588 pages
...contract or fale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any intereft therein. 5. And, laftly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal affumpftt is void (3). FROM « 4 Rep. 92. f See book II. ch. 30. (3) Thefe... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...therewith: 1. Where an executor or administrator promises to answer damages out of his own estate. -, Where a man undertakes to answer for the debt, default,...In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. From these express contracts the transition is easy to those that are only implied by law. Which are... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...agreement is made upon consideration of marriage. 4. W here any contract or sale is made of lauds, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein....not to be performed within a year from the making hereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. From these express contracts the. transition... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...that which is attempted to be fixed on the party sued. If A. orders B., U 4 'a tradesman, nistrator promises to answer damages out of his own estate....In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. FROM these express contracts the transition is easy to those that are only implied by law. Which are... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...is made upon consideration of marriage. 4. Where any contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And, lastly,...In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. These provisions in the statute have produced many decisions, both in the courts of law and equity.... | |
 | Thomas Lee - Law - 1825 - 768 pages
...Where any contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. Where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. Observations Such contracts are express ; but assumpsit will also lie upon those contracts which are... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...; but at the least some note or memorandum of it shall be made in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith : 1 . Where an executor or...all these cases, a mere verbal assumpsit is void. ASSUMPTION, a festival in the Romish church, in honor of the miraculous ascent of the Virgin Mar}-... | |
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Evidence, therefore, of the agreement cannot be received without the writing or secondary evidence of its contents : 1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof ; 2. 
