 The generally accepted doctrine in this country is, as stated by Mr. Benjamin, that a contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a future day is valid, even though the seller has not the goods nor auy other means of getting them than to go into...  Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England - Page 273by Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1893Full view - About this book
 | William Roberts - 1807 - 522 pages
...Bl. 63, and the Court of King's Bench in Cooper » Elston, 7 TR 14, have moat emphatically decided, that a contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a future period, is as much within the statute as where the goods are to be delivered immediately. Upon the... | |
 | 1843 - 530 pages
...OF SALE . ( Contract for sale and future delivery of goods not then in vendor's possession, valid.) A contract for the sale of goods, to be delivered at a future day, is not invalidated by the circumstance that at the time of the contract, the vendor neither has the goods... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby - 1840 - 752 pages
...authority of the case of Bryan v. Lewis (a), where Lord Tenterden ruled at Nisi Prius, that if a party contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a future day, he not then having them nor having contracted to buy them, but intending afterwards to go into the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1841 - 1040 pages
...offences at common law (b). A wager on the future price of goods would not seem to be illegal (c). Nor is a contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a future day invalidated by the circumstance that at the time of the contract the vendor neither has the goods in... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1842 - 814 pages
...made by persons who had an option either to work for this or that person as they chose. A contract (Z) for the sale of goods, to be delivered at a future day, is not invalidated by the circumstance, that, at the time of the contract, the vendor neither has the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1854 - 750 pages
...article of commerce or manufacture. It was distinctly held, in Hibblewhite v. M'Morine, 5 M. & W. 462, f that a contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a future day, is not invalidated by the circumstance, that, at the time of the contract, the vendor neither has the... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1857 - 614 pages
...contract, because it partakes of the nature of a gambling transaction; but it is now well established, that a contract for the sale of goods to be delivered at a future day, is not invalidated by the circumstance that, at the time of the contract, the vendor neither has the goods... | |
 | John Scott, Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1858 - 568 pages
...same effect. Hibblewaite v. M'Morine, 5 M. & W. 462, f disposes of the objection. It was there held, that a contract for the sale of goods, to be delivered at a future day, is not invalidated by the circumstance that at the time of the contract the vendor neither has the goods... | |
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