| New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1884 - 798 էջ
...chap. 24), after speaking of naked promises upon which no action would lie, the learned author says : " If he, to whom the promise is made, have a charge...made the promise have no worldly profit by it." And among other illustrations it is said, " if a man say to another, marry my daughter and I will give... | |
| Richard Ross Perry - 1897 - 536 էջ
...(Doctor and Student), published in 1531, the student of law thus defines the liability of a promisor: " ' If he to whom the promise is made have a charge by reason of the promise, ... he shall have an action for that thing that was promised, though he that made the promise have... | |
| Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - 1905 - 718 էջ
...Saint-Germain's book, published in 1522, the student of law thus defines the liability of a promisor : "If he to whom the promise is made have a charge by reason of the promise, * * * he shall have an action for that thing that was promised, though he that made the promise have... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1908 - 580 էջ
...in the development of doctrine. I mean the view formulated by St. Germain in the following words : ' if he to whom the promise is made have a charge by reason of the promise, which he has also performed, then in that case he shall have an action for that thing that was promised' (ii.... | |
| Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1909 - 620 էջ
...Hy. VIII. Mich. pi. 3. • I .. M. and K. xxv 146. 6 II. c. 24 ; as to this book see vol i 240 n. 5. promise is made have a charge by reason of the promise...that made the promise have no worldly profit by it. As if a man say to another, Heal such a poor man of his disease, or make an highway, and I shall give... | |
| Association of American Law Schools - 1909 - 884 էջ
...liability of a promisor : " If he to whom the promise is made have a charge by reason of the promise, ... he shall have an action for that thing that was promised,...made the promise have no worldly profit (' by it." 1 From that day to this a detriment has always been ] deemed a valid consideration for a promise if... | |
| James Barr Ames - 1913 - 652 էջ
...Saint-Germain's book, published in 1522, the student of law thus defines the liability of a promisor: "If he to whom the promise is made have a charge by reason of the promise, ... he shall have an action for that thing that was promised, though he that made the promise have... | |
| Fīrōzshāh Nasarvānjī Daruvālā - 1914 - 700 էջ
...Saint Germain's Book Doctor and Student^ the student of law thus defines the liability of a promisor, ' If he to whom the promise is made, have a charge by reason of the promise, he shall have an action for that thing that was promised, though he that made the promise have no wordly... | |
| Josephus Nelson Larned - 1923 - 960 էջ
...Saint-Germain's book, published in 1531, the student of law thus defines the liability of a promisor: 'If he to whom the promise is made have a charge by reason of Stain!,- of Pses Testamentary Power the promise, ... he shall have an action for that thing that was... | |
| Sir William Searle Holdsworth - 1923 - 770 էջ
...introduced the whole law of parol guarantee." * Thus we find it stated in The Doctor and Student*" that "if he to whom the promise is made have a charge...that made the promise have no worldly profit by it. As if a man say to another, Heal such a poor man of his disease, or make an highway, and I shall give... | |
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