 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...merit. As if it were injustice to sell dearer than we buy ; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured...value, is that which they be contented to give. And merit, besides that which is by covenant, where the performance on one part, meriteth the performance... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...merit. As if it were injustice to sell dearer than we buy ; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured...value, is that which they be contented to give. And merit, besides that which is by covenant, where the performance on one part, meriteth the performance... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1876 - 692 pages
...distinguishing mark of English jurisprudence that the amount of the consideration is not material. "The value of all things contracted for is measured...just value is that which they be contented to give "(6). Adequacy j^ jg accordingly treated as an " elementary principle that the ^iteration law will... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1876 - 694 pages
...distinguishing mark of English jurisprudence that the amount of the consideration is not material. "The value of all things^ contracted for is measured...the just value is that which they be contented to N give "(6). Adequacy j^ jg accordingly treated as an " elementary principle that the sideration law... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1878 - 734 pages
...jurisprudence that the amount of not in- the consideration is not material. " The value of all things into" contracted for is measured by the appetite of the...just value is that which they be contented to give" COIt is accordingly treated as an " elementary principle that the law will not enter into an inquiry... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1881 - 848 pages
...consideration is not material. "The value n°^ inof all things contracted for is measured by the appetite the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give " («). It is accordingly treated as an " elementary principle that the law will not enter into an... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 686 pages
...the author quotes approvingly from a philosophic treatise this statement: "The value of all thingss contracted for is measured by the appetite of the...just value is that which they be contented to give." An examination of the decided eases will prove this to Wolford v. Powers, Administratrix. be an unusually... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1000 pages
...Principles of Contract, the author quotes approvingly from a philosophic treatise this statement : " The value of all things contracted for is measured...just value is that which they be contented to give." An examination of the decided cases will prove this to be an unusually accurate statement of the law.... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - Legal maxims - 1884 - 1078 pages
...consideration Aii«inni-y nut material. for a promise has some value its adequacy is not material (e). The value of all things contracted for " is measured...and therefore the just value is that which they be content to give" (/), moreover, the consideration may be contingent. Value 1* cc rt-nt may tinKhadiceU,... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1885 - 844 pages
...English positive law but in the English school of theoretical jurisprudence and politics. Hobbes says : " The value of all things contracted for is measured...just value is that which they be contented to give" (p). And the legal rule is of long standing, and illustrated by many cases. " When a thing is to be... | |
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The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors : and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give. 
