 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore - 1818 - 636 pages
...commissioners, on account of the creditors applying to prove, being alien enemies, Lord Eldin observed, ' If this had ' been a debt arising from a contract...enemy, * it could not possibly stand, for the contract itself would ' be void ; but if the two nations were at peace, at the ' date of the contract, from... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1824 - 1090 pages
...Lordship (4), " bad been a debt arising from a contract entered into with an alien enemy during war, it could not possibly stand, for the contract would...nations were at peace at the date of the contract, though, from the time of war taking place, the creditor could not sue, yet, the contract being originally... | |
 | Theodore Lyman - 1826 - 412 pages
...the war, to allow the American one ing from a contract entered into with an alien enemy during war, it could not possibly stand ; for the contract would...nations were at peace at the date of the contract, though, from the time of war taking place, the creditor could not sue, yet the contract, being originally... | |
 | Theodore Lyman (Jr.) - 1826 - 406 pages
...the war, to allow the American one ing from a contract entered into with an alien enemy during war, it could not possibly stand; for the contract would...nations were at peace at the date of the contract, though, from the time of war taking place, the creditor could not sue, yet the contract, being originally... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Chancery - 1827 - 644 pages
...the date of the contract, The Lord CHANCELLOR. If this had been a debt, arising from a contract with Contract with an alien enemy, it could not possibly stand ; for the con- alien enemy tract would be void (31 ). But, if the two nations were at peace at the date of the... | |
 | Theodore Lyman - 1828 - 500 pages
...with an alien enemy during war, it could not possihly stand ; for the contract would he void ; hut if the two nations were at peace at the date of the contract, though, from the time of war taking place, the creditor could not sue, yet the contract, heing originally... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Henry Philip Roche - 1854 - 498 pages
...his Lordship, " had been a debt, arising from a contract entered into with an alien enemy during war, it could not possibly stand, for the contract would...nations were at peace at the date of the contract, though, from the time of war taking place, the creditor could not sue, yet the contract being originally... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1855 - 586 pages
...foreigner. Lord ERSKINE, Chancellor, in his judgment in the case Ex parle Boussmaktr, 13 Ves. 71, says, " if this had been a debt arising from a contract with...possibly stand : for the contract would be void." The present is not the case of a contract made in peace, and suspended by war, that can at the return... | |
 | Francis Henry Upton - 1863 - 536 pages
...his lordship, "had been a debt arising from a contract, entered into with an alien enemy during war, it could not possibly stand, for the contract would...nations were at peace at the date of the contract, though, from the time of war taking place, the creditor could not sue, yet, the contract being originally... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1863 - 582 pages
...said, "If this had been a debt arising from a contract entered into with an alien enemy during war, it could not possibly stand, for the contract would...Nations were at peace at the date of the contract, though from the time of war taking place the creditor could not sue, yet the contract being originally... | |
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had been a debt, arising from a contract entered into with an alien enemy during war, it could not possibly stand, for the contract would be void... 
