 | 1794 - 612 pages
...Fonblanque : •To allow a ftatute, having the prevention of frauds for its object, to be interpofed in bar of the performance of a parol agreement, in part performed, were evidently to • encourage one of the mifchiefs which the legislature intended to prevent. It... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1794 - 612 pages
...compiled. • To allow a ftatute, having the prevention of frauds for its object, to be interpofed in bar of the performance of a parol agreement, in part performed, were evidently to encourage one of the mifchiefs which the legifiature intended to prevent. It is therefore... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1794 - 612 pages
...1794' ' To allow a ftatute, having the prevention of frauds for its object., :•• be interpofcd in bar of the performance of a parol agreement, in part performed, were evidently to encourage one of the mifchiefs which the legislature intended to prevent. It is therefore... | |
 | Henry Ballow, John Fonblanque - Equity - 1820 - 492 pages
...Mortlock v. Buller, 10 Ves. 311. (e) To allow a statute, having the prevention of frauds for ita object, to be interposed in bar of the performance of a parol agreement, in part performed, were evidently to encourage one of the mischiefs which the legislature intended to prevent. It is therefore... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1824 - 380 pages
...is not within the provisions of the statute. 1 Fonb. 182, and the cases there cited. 3 Atk. 4. (a) To allow a statute, having for its object the prevention...improvements, is considered a part execution of a contract. Potu. on Contr. 296. So, also, possession, delivered in pursuance of an agreement, is such a degree... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 854 pages
...very accurately and ably discussed. To allow a statute having the prevention of frauds for its object to be interposed in bar of the performance of a parol agreement, in part performed, were evidently to encourage one of the mischiefs which the legislature intended to prevent. It is therefore... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 500 pages
...frauds will be no obstacle to the relief; for, in the language of his honor, the present chief justice,! "to allow a statute, having for its object the prevention of frauds, to he interposed in bar of the performance of a parol agreeALBANY, April, 1816. PARKHURST v. VAN CORTI... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1854 - 732 pages
...in part performed, was not within the provisions of the Statute of Frauds. " To allow," says he, " a statute, having for its object the prevention of...the mischiefs the legislature intended to prevent." § 321. In an injunction bill filed in the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, it was held, that if waste-gates... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 808 pages
...the provisions of the statute: 1 Fonb. 182, and the cases there cited; Lacon v. Mertins, 3 Atk. 4. To allow a statute having for its object the prevention...bar of the performance of a parol agreement in part performance would evidently encourage the mischiefs the legislature intended to prevent. Money laid... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1918 - 708 pages
...thoroughly sifted. "To allow a statute," says he, "having the prevention of frauds for its object, to be interposed in bar of the performance of a parol agreement in part performed, were evidently to encourage one of the mischiefs which the legislature intended to prevent. It is therefore... | |
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To allow a statute, having for its object the prevention of frauds, to be interposed in bar of the performance of a parol agreement, in part performed, would evidently encourage the mischiefs the legislature intended to prevent. 