 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
 | Appellate courts - 1904 - 828 pages
...determinate sum, a bill or note, a special bargain, or a rent reserved on a lease, where the amount is fixed and specific, and does not depend upon any subsequent valuation to settle it." 3 Bl. Com. 154. Again: "Any contract, in short, whereby a determinate sum of money becomes due to any... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 808 pages
...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...depend upon any subsequent valuation to settle it": 3 Blackstone, 154. Schouler considers this definition too narrow, but does not differ from Blackstone... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1034 pages
...or express agreement, as by a bond for a determined sum; a bill or note; a special bargain; or rent reserved on a lease; where the quantity is fixed and...depend upon any subsequent valuation to settle it." Referring to this definition, Mr. Loveland, In his work on -the Law and Proceedings In Bankruptcy,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 710 pages
...money due by certain and express agreement; as by a bond for a determinate sura, 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 ease of Bishop v. Young, 2 Bos. * Pull. 78,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 505 pages
...fettle it. The non-payment 10 Nuy's M.iv. c. 41 o See bookii. cii. _;c " Cio. Car 2^4 4.^-. of thefe is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action of debt p, to compel the performance of the contract and recover the ipecifical fum due '. This is the fhorteft... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1998 - 1126 pages
...determinate sum, a bill or note, à-spécial bargain, or a rent reserved on alease, where the amount is fixed and specific, and does not depend upon any subsequent valuation to settle it. 3 Bl. Com. 154. Debt is otherwise described by Sir William Blackstone as a species of contract, whereby... | |
 | Henry James Holthouse - Law - 1999 - 504 pages
...agreement : as by a bond for a determinate sum; a bill of exchange, or a promissory note, or a rent reserved on a lease; where the quantity is fixed and...subsequent valuation to settle it. The non-payment these is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by action of debt, to compel the performance of... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - Law - 2000 - 288 pages
...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...these is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by of debt, to compel the performance of the contract and recover the specifical sum due. . . . The form... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - Law - 2000 - 285 pages
...subsequent valuation to settle it. The non-payment of these is an injury, for which the proper remedy is by of debt, to compel the performance of the contract and recover the specifical sum due. . . . The form of the writ of debt is sometimes in the debet and detinet, and sometimes... | |
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