| William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 732 pages
...them ; or upon any agreement that is not " to be performed within the space of one year from th« " making thereof, unless the agreement upon which such...other person thereunto by him " lawfully authorized." It will be proper to remark, that this section was intended for the relief of personal representatives... | |
| Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1815 - 600 pages
...contract or sale of land-, tenement-;, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them — or ppon any agreement, that is not to be performed within...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." it ( i ). Nor are the words of the statute to be construed so strictly, as to make it necessary to... | |
| Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1816 - 746 pages
...charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage— or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.'' (a) Vide Sears v. Brink, 3 Johns. Rep. 210. which was an action on a contract for the sale of lands,... | |
| William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 782 pages
...charge any person, upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage ; or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." .' r.,,j - . \ . . It will be proper to remark, that this section was intended for the relief of personal... | |
| George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriages of another person, or to charge any person upon any agreement that is not to be performed within...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized. " And by the seventeenth section of the same statute it is enacted, that " no contract for the sale... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 686 pages
...statute, the words of which are, " that no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any agreement that is not to be performed within...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." The only sound construction to be put on those words is, to confine them to cases, where, by the express... | |
| Beamish Murdoch - Law - 1833 - 254 pages
...c. 18, Sec. 4, 1 PL 25, 26, enacts that no action shall be brought whereby to charge " the defendant upon any agreement, that is not to be " performed...person thereunto by •' him lawfully authorized." The memorandum required by the 4th and 5th clauses of the statute, if signed by one party only, will... | |
| Law - 1836 - 526 pages
...the statute are, " That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized, 29 Car. 2, s. 4. • owners, it is supposed that he would not do so unless the others had agreed to... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 856 pages
...charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage; or upon any contract or sa!e of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." And the object of the statute was, that no action should lie unless where it could be proved at the... | |
| Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 928 pages
...interest in, or concerning them ; or upon any agreement that is not to he performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." A promise by an executor or administrator to pay the debt of the deceased, to render him personally... | |
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