| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Erskine Perry, Henry Davison - 1841 - 734 pages
...must be discharged. PATTESON J. — The 9 Geo. 4, c. 14, has provided for two different things: 1. That no action shall be maintained whereby to charge...full age to pay any debt contracted during infancy. 2. Nor upon any ratification after full age, of any promise or simple contract made during infancy,... | |
| William Selwyn - 1842 - 814 pages
...executor to pay in consequence of forbearance was nudum pactum : And now by stat. 9 Geo. IV. c. 14, s. 5, no action shall be maintained, whereby to charge any...after full age of any promise or simple contract, unless such promise or ratification be by some writing signed by the party to be charged therewith.... | |
| Archibald John Stephens - 1842 - 998 pages
...may be no other consideration, than the moral obligation to pay. (8) By stat 9 Geo. 4. c. 14. s. 5. "no action shall be maintained whereby to charge any...upon any promise made after full age, to pay any debt RATIFICATION AKTER FULL ACE. The contract of an infant is voidable only. Moral obligation to pay is... | |
| 1869 - 492 pages
...contract. The Act 9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 5, says that " no action shall be maintained whereby to chargeany person upon any promise made after full age to pay...ratification shall be made by some writing signed by the pnrty to be charged therewith." The cases upon this (Harris v. Wall, 1 Ex. 122: Hartley v. W hartón,... | |
| 1844 - 530 pages
...that is to say, contracts not by deed, must now be in writing, for it is enacted by a late statute 2 that no action shall be maintained whereby to charge...upon any ratification after full age of any promise on simple contract made during infancy, unless such promise or ratification shall be made by some writing... | |
| William Blackstone, James Stewart - 1844 - 684 pages
...IV., c. 14, s. 5, no person shall be charged upon any promise made after full age, to pay any debts contracted during infancy, or upon any ratification...any promise or simple contract made during infancy, or by reason of any representation as to the character, ability, or dealings of any other person, to... | |
| William Selwyn - 1845 - 802 pages
...Aldenon, B., delivering the (») Evelyn v. Chichetter, 3 Burr. 1717. 13 Law J. (NS) Exch. 286. tained, whereby to charge any person upon any promise made...after full age of any promise or simple contract, unless such promise or ratification be by some writing signed by the party to be charged therewith.... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir Edmund Saunders - 1845 - 602 pages
...bankrupt (6 G. 4. c. 16. s. 131.); nor on any promise to pay, or ratification of, a debt contracted during infancy, unless such promise or ratification...be made by some writing signed by the party to be charged therewith (9 G. 4. c. 14. s. 5.)]. But the promise must be unequivocal ; 1 Stark. 370. Fleming... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1846 - 628 pages
...rule of law, incontrovertible, that an infant cannot bind himself by deed. And the statute is express that "no action shall be maintained whereby to charge...full age, to pay any debt contracted during infancy, unless such promise or satisfaction shall be made by some writing signed by the party to be charged... | |
| Thomas Platt - 1847 - 932 pages
...accrued during infancy, otherwise than by writing ; the statute of 9 Gco. 4. c. 14, having provided (k), that no action shall be maintained whereby to charge...be made by some writing signed by the party to be charged therewith. A late act of parliament (/) empowers an infant entitled to any lease, or his guardian... | |
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