 The legal acceptation of debt is, a sum of money due by certain and express agreement : as, by a bond for a determinate sum ; a bill or note ; a special bargain ; or a rent reserved on a lease ; where the quantity is fixed and specific, and does not depend...  A Compendium and Digest of the Laws of Massachusetts - Page 405by Massachusetts, William Charles White - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 506 pages
...fpecific, and . does not depend upon any fubfcquent valuation to fettle it. The non-payment of thefe is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action of debt ', to compel the performance of « Noy's Max. c. 44. <? See book II. ch. 30. » Cro. Car. :<J4. 4^7. ' F. N, B. ug. 6 the the contract:... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 588 pages
...fpecific, and does not depend upon any fubfequent valuation to fettle it. The non-payment of thefe is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action...compel the performance of the contract and recover the fpecifical fum due'. This is the [ fhorteft and fureft remedy ; particularly where the debt arifes... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 588 pages
...fpecific, and does not depend upon any fubfequent valuation to fettle it. The non-payment of thefe is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action of dibtr, to compel the performance 'of the contrail and recover the fpecifical fum due3. This is the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 568 pages
...fpecifie, and does not depend upon any fubfequent valuation to fettle it. The non-payment of thefe is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action...compel the performance of the contract and recover the fpecifical fum due'. This is the [ 155 fhoneil and fureft remedy, particularly where the debt arifes... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 562 pages
...valuation to fettle it.. The non-payment of thefe is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by a£tion of debt', to compel the performance of the contract and recover the fpecifical fum due 5 . This is the C T 55 fhorteft and furcft remedy; particularly where the debt arifes... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 726 pages
...lent, for which reimbursement has not been made. Tin non-payment in these cases, is an injury, t.,r which the proper remedy is by action of debt, to compel the performance of the contract, and recover the special snin due. VOL. II. DEB DEBT, uut'umul, the engagement . n tered into by a government, to repay... | |
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...money due by certain and express agreement; as by a bond for a determinate sum, a bill, or note &c.; where the quantity is fixed and specific, and does not depend upon any robsequent valuation to settle it. 3 Bl. Comm. 154. Damages on the contrary are uncertain. The plaintiff... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Court rules - 1812 - 486 pages
...money due by certain and express agreement ; as by a bond for a determinate sum, a bill or note," &c. " The non-payment of these is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action of debt." * 465 *But the question is now settled in England, in the case of Bishop v. Young, 2 Bos. & Pull. T9.... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 424 pages
...delivered, or money lent, for which reimbursement has not been made. The non-payment, in these cases, is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action...compel the performance of the contract, and recover the special sum due. DEBT, national, the engagement entered into by a government, to repay at a future... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 426 pages
...delivered, or money lent, for which reimbursement has not been made. The non-payment, in these cases, is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action...compel the performance of the contract, and recover the special sum due. DEBT, national, the engagement entered into by a government, to repay at a future... | |
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