 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 732 pages
...them ; or upon any agreement that is not " to be performed within the space of one year from th« " making thereof, unless the agreement upon which such...therewith, or some other person thereunto by him " lawfully authorized." It will be proper to remark, that this section was intended for the relief of personal... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1815 - 600 pages
...contract or sale of land-, tenement-;, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them — or ppon any agreement, that is not to be performed within...therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." it ( i ). Nor are the words of the statute to be construed so strictly, as to make it... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1816 - 746 pages
...contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them — or upon any agreement, that is not to be performed within...therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.'' (a) Vide Sears v. Brink, 3 Johns. Rep. 210. which was an action on a contract for the... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1817 - 782 pages
...contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them ; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within...therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." .' r.,,j - . \ . . It will be proper to remark, that this section was intended for the... | |
 | George Long - Sales - 1821 - 294 pages
...defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriages of another person, or to charge any person upon any agreement that is not...therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized. " And by the seventeenth section of the same statute it is enacted, that " no contract... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1822 - 600 pages
...contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or [of] any interest in or concerning them ; or upon any agreement, that is not to be performed within...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorised. This section is not to be understood as giving validity to agreements, which would not be valid by... | |
 | Thomas Peake - Evidence - 1822 - 666 pages
...interest in or concerning the same. 5. Or upon any agreement that is not to be per- [211] formed within one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, signed by the party to be... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1823 - 728 pages
...agreement made upon consideration of marriage ; 4th, or upon any agreement that is not to be performed in one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement, upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof shall be in writing, and signed by the party to... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...the last branch of the -t-th clause of the statute it is enacted, t' That no action shall be brought to charge any person upon any agreement that is not...other person thereunto by him lawfully authorised." Now upon this clause of the statute it has been holden, that if no time be stipulated for the performance... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 686 pages
...statute, the words of which are, " that no action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any agreement that is not to be performed within...therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized." The only sound construction to be put on those words is, to confine them to cases, where,... | |
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... or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such... 
