 P. 249] , and the conclusion there arrived at seems to be correct in general, "that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medium of an implied promise, had it not been suspended...  The American Law Register - Page 321864Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bernard Bosanquet, Sir Christopher Puller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1826 - 708 pages
...subsequent eiprest promise, such a person ought-tu pay. An express promise, therefore, as it should seera, can only revive a precedent good consideration, which...promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule ot law, but can give no original right of action if the obligation on which it is founded nerer could... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 526 pages
...obligation is a sufficient consideration to support an assumpsit is denied to be law. The true rule is that an express promise can only revive a precedent good consideration, which could have beenenforced at law, thro' the medium of an implied promise, but cannot create an original... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1834 - 626 pages
...3 B. & P. 249; this conclusion is arrived at: "an express promise therefore it should seem oanfonly revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at law through the medi. ,um of an implied promise, had it not been suspended by some positive rule of law; but can have... | |
 | William Johnson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 678 pages
...summed up in a note to 3 Bos. and Pull. 249. " An express promise, therefore, as it should seem, ciui only revive a precedent good consideration, which might have been enforced at low, through the medium of an implied promise, hud it not been suspended by some positive rule of law... | |
 | Law - 1840 - 488 pages
...answerable. (8 B. & C. 728 ; 2 East, 325.) Mere moral consideration will not support an express promise. An express promise can only revive a precedent good...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 1841 - 1040 pages
...due notice of its dishonour, is liable if he subsequently promise payment (o). In genera], however, an express promise can only revive a precedent good...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action if the obligation on which it is founded CO -M'Ar«i' v. Reid, 2 M. & Sc. 89. cited... | |
 | Francis Towers Streeten, Ewen Henry Cameron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 716 pages
...debts. Hall v. Middletan, 5 Law J. Rep. (NS) KB 13 ; 4 Ad.&E. 107; 5N.&M.410. MORAL CONSIDERATION. An express promise can only revive a precedent good...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action if the obligation, on which it is founded, could never have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 528 pages
...answerable. (8 B. & C. 728 ; 2 East, 325.) Mere moral consideration will not support an express promise. An express promise can only revive a precedent good...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 564 pages
...to be correct in general, " that an exSrese promise can only revive a precedent good consieration, which might have been enforced at law through the...some positive rule of law, but can give no original cause of action, if the obligation on which it is founded never could have been enforced at law, though... | |
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