| New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this parliament assembled, ami l,y the authority of the same, that in actions of debt or upon the case grounded...any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise by word only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take any... | |
| James Philemon Holcombe - Debtor and creditor - 1848 - 528 pages
...payment, or other evidence of a new promise, expressed or implied. But an act passed in 1838 enacts that in actions of debt or upon the case, grounded...any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise made hereafter, by words only, shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new and continuing contract,... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1849 - 686 pages
...for the purpose of taking cases out of the operation of the Statute of Limitations, it is enacted, that in actions of debt or upon the case grounded...only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new and continuing contract whereby to take any case out of the operation of that statute, and that no... | |
| Law - 1852 - 836 pages
...been made that the person having made the promise was at the * 9Geo. 4, c.14, s. 1, provides, "that no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be...of a new or continuing contract whereby to take any caso out of the operation of the said enactments or either of them, or to deprive any party of the... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 892 pages
...c.14, s. 1, enacts, "that in actions grounded on any simple contract, no acknowledgment or promise shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take the case out of the operation of the 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, unless such acknowledgment or promise shall... | |
| John Simcoe Saunders - Civil procedure - 1851 - 776 pages
...in Writing.'] By the late important act, 9 Geo. IV. c. 14, s. 1, it is enacted, " that in actions in debt or upon the case, grounded upon any simple contract,...of the operation of the said enactments, or either oi' them, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise shall... | |
| Law - 1851 - 844 pages
...to the two first, leaving the third precisely as it was. The words of the Act of Geo. 4, are, " that no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be...to take any case out of the operation of the said enactment, or any of them, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment... | |
| Law - 1851 - 536 pages
...evidence for the purpose of taking case* out of the operation of the said enactments," and then enacted that "in actions of debt, or upon the case grounded...only shall be deemed sufficient evidence of a new and continuing contract, whereby to take any case out of the operation of the said enactments or either... | |
| Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 680 pages
...statute does not confine itself to the two first, leaving the third precisely as it was. The words are, " that in actions of debt, or upon the case, grounded...acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be deemed sufficifnt evidence of a new or continuing contract, whereby to take any case out of the operation... | |
| Great Britain. Bail Court - Civil procedure - 1851 - 900 pages
...verbal promises were supposed to revive old debts. The language, however, of that statute is, that " no acknowledgment or promise by words only shall be...sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract." Now, the time for deciding what is and what is not evidence of a new contract, is when the trial of... | |
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