 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...folemnilui wijht'"* " Jit, tuque faSa aut dationt rei tranfiit in contrafium inntminatum." (3) Where a man is under a moral obligation which no court of...promifes, the honefty and rectitude of the thing is a conftderatton. As if a man promife to pay a joft debt, the recovery of which is barred by the flatnte... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1800 - 444 pages
...made. Afortiorif a legal or equitable duty is a fufficient confideration for an actual promife. Where a man is under a moral obligation, which no court of law or equity can inforce, and promifes, the honefty and rectitude of the thing is a confideration. As if a man promife... | |
 | William Tidd - Civil procedure - 1821 - 820 pages
...to whom the promise was made. But this rule seems to be too narrow ; for it is said, that wherever a man is under a moral obligation, which no court of law or equity can enforce, and promises, the honesty and rectitude of the thing is a consideration ; as if a man promise to pay a... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...sufficient to support an action. («) 8. OF A PROMISE TO PAY A PRECEDENT DEBT BARRED BY STATUTE, &C. Where a man is under a moral obligation, which no court of law or equity can enforce, and promises, the honesty and rectitude of the thing is a valid consideration : As, if a man promise to... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Bills of exchange - 1829 - 532 pages
...v. Ingram, 4 D. fy R. 211. (See Note 18.) So a moral obligation is a sufficient consideration. Where a man is under a moral obligation, which no court of law or equity can enforce, and promises, the honesty and rectitude of the thing is a consideration; as if a man promises to pay a... | |
 | Law - 1833 - 560 pages
...an executor to pay a legacy, Lord Mansfield, on the question what was the consideration, said, Where a man is under a moral obligation, which no Court of Law or Equity can enforce, and promises, the honesty and rectitude of the thing is a consideration. The same principle was in effect... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 660 pages
...express or implied, of the promisor.V.FeZ/ on Guarantees, 3,4.J/Butin addition to this, if a man be under a moral obligation, which no court of law, or equity can enforce, and promises, the honesty and rectitude of the thing is a consideration : as if a man promise to pay a... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 820 pages
...duty, is a sufficient £ ' consideration for an actual promise." He further observes Blod ct " where a man is under a moral obligation which no court of »• law or equity can enforce, and promises, the honesty and rectitude of the thing is a consideration." See, also, Watton v. Turner,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Bills of exchange - 1847 - 704 pages
...a Bill between the same parties. It has, indeed, in some cases been broadly laid down, that, where a man is under a moral obligation, which no court of law or equity can enforce, and promises, the Bills, ch. 12, p. 494 to 504 (5th edit. 1830) ; Sharington v. Strotten, Plowden, R. 308... | |
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Where a man is under a moral obligation, which no court of law or equity can enforce, and promises, the honesty and rectitude of the thing is a consideration. 
