 | John Impey - Civil procedure - 1790 - 812 pages
...made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interfft therein. 5. And, lc[/}!y, where there it any agreement that is not to be performed within a...the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal ajfumpfit is void. Affumpfit lies in many cafes where debt lies, and in many where debt doth not lie.... | |
 | Charles Viner - Law - 1793 - 682 pages
...enacted, that no action Inall be brought, &c. whereby to charge any pcrfon, &c. upon any agreement which is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof, unlefs * the agreement be in writing ; and an action wu brought, upon an agreement by the defendant... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 588 pages
...marriage. 4. Where any contract or fale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any intereft therein. 5. And, laftly, where there is any agreement...the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal affumpftt is void (3). FROM « 4 Rep. 92. f See book II. ch. 30. (3) Thefe provifions in the ftatute... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 588 pages
...contraft or fale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any intereft therein. 5. And, lallly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed...the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal ajjumpfit is void (-3). FROM « 4 Rep. gt. f Sec bo'.'k II. ch. 30. (3) Thefe provifions in the fiatute... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 568 pages
...contract or falc is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interefl therein. 5. And, laflly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed...the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal a/umpftt is void (4). ' 4 Rep. 94. t Sec hook II. ch. 30. (4) Thefe provilions in the ftatute have... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 562 pages
...marriage. 4. Where any contract or fale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any intereft therein. 5. And, laftly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed withip a year from the making thereof. In all thefe cafes a mere verbal a/umj>f,t is void (4). ' *... | |
 | Thomas Walter Williams - Law - 1816 - 1048 pages
...contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And, lastly, Where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. 3 Black. 15", 158. Besides these express contracts there... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And, lastly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. From these express contracts the transition is easy to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...contract or sale is made of lauds, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And lastly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making hereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. From these express contracts the. transition... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...contract or sale is made of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein. 5. And lastly, where there is any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof. In all these cases a mere verbal assumpsit is void. FROM these express contracts the transition is easy to... | |
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Evidence, therefore, of the agreement cannot be received without the writing or secondary evidence of its contents : 1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof ; 2. 
