 | George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...promise might have been upon a condition precedent, which the party charged might not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which would materially vary the promise, by turning that into an absoluse promise which was only a conditional one: and Mr. Justice Lawrence, adverting to the language... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...promise might have been made upon a condition precedent, which the party charged may not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which would materially...another consideration in the one case, or to drop the condition in the other; and thus to introduce the very frauds and perjuries which it was the object... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 pages
...precedent, which the party charged might not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which might materially vary the promise, by turning that into...absolute promise which was only a conditional one." Grose, J., " What the statute requires in writing, is the agreement, (not the promise, as mentioned... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 928 pages
...precedent, which the party charged might not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which might materially vary the promise, by turning that into...absolute promise which was only a conditional one." Grose, 3., " What the statute requires in writing, is the agreement, (not the promise, as mentioned... | |
 | John William Smith - 1840 - 530 pages
...promise might have been made upon a condition precedent, which the party charged may not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which would materially...another consideration in the one case, or to drop the condition in the other, and thus to introduce the very frauds and perjuries which it was the object... | |
 | John William Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 612 pages
...promise might have been made upon a condition precedent, which the party charged may not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which would materially...another consideration in the one case, or to drop the condition in the other, and thus to introduce the very frauds and perjuries which it was the object... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1847 - 438 pages
...appear, but it where all the cases are noted, must be sufficient ; see French p. 649. n. (b.) wards be able to prove, the omission of which would materially...another consideration in the one case, or to drop the condition in the other, and thus to introduce the very frauds and perjuries which it was the object... | |
 | John William Smith - Contracts - 1853 - 488 pages
...sufficient. See French v. French, 2 M. & Gr. 644, 40 ECLR, where all the cases are noted, p. 649, n. (6). that into an absolute promise which was only a conditional...another consideration in the one case, or to drop the condition in the other, and thus to introduce the very frauds and perjuries which it was the object... | |
 | John William Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 798 pages
...promise might have been made upon a condition precedent, which the party charged may not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which would materially...another consideration in the one case, or to drop the condition in the other, and thus to introduce the very frauds and perjuries which it was the object... | |
 | Causten Browne - Statute of frauds - 1863 - 616 pages
...promise might have been made on a condition precedent, which the party charged may not afterwards be able to prove, the omission of which would materially vary the promise, by turning 1 Com. Dig. tit. Agreement, A. 1. that into an absolute promise which was only a conditional one; and... | |
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... necessary for effectuating the object of the statute that the consideration should be set down in writing as well as the promise; for otherwise the consideration might be illegal, or the promise might have been made upon a condition precedent, which... 
