 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1861 - 724 pages
...to be guarded against by the statute ? Does it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of...an admission that something is due, or some balance accruing, be justly construed into a promise to pay any debt, or balance which the party may assert... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 824 pages
...to be guarded against by the statute ? Does it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of...promise to pay any debt or balance which the party may assert or prove before a jury ? If there be an express promise to such an effect, that might be pressed... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, John Wilder May - 1869 - 756 pages
...to be guarded against by the statute ? Does it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of the real state of the transaction caunot be produced ? Does it not tend to encourage perjury, by removing the bar upon slight acknowledgments... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1876 - 772 pages
...to be guarded against by the statute ? Docs it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of...an admission that something is due, or some balance accruing, be justly construed into a promise to pay any debt or balance which the party may assert... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 1074 pages
...to be guarded against by the statute? Does it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands, after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of...promise to pay any debt or balance which the party may assert or prove before a jury? If there l>e an express promise to such an effect, that might be pressed... | |
 | Franklin Hubbell Mackey, District of Columbia. Supreme Court - 1883 - 712 pages
...intended to be guarded against by the statute? Does it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of...promise to pay any debt or balance which the party may assert or prove before a jury?" It is here pointed out that the implication of a new promise by Morrison... | |
 | 1887 - 1038 pages
...to pay it as a subsisting debt. An admission that something is due or some balance accruing cannot be justly construed into a promise to pay any debt or balance which the party may assert or prove before a jury. Bell v. Morrison, supra; Angell, Limitations, § 239. Messrs. William... | |
 | 1888 - 890 pages
...intended to be guarded against by the statute? Does it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of...promise to pay any debt or balance which the party may assert or prove before a jury? If there be an express promise to such an effect, that might be pressed... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1893 - 776 pages
...of the real state of the trans- Termaction cannot he produced ? Does it not tend to en- neu courage perjury, by removing the bar upon slight acknowledgments...of an indeterminate nature? Can an admission that somethingis due, or some balance owing, be justly construed into a promise to pay any debt or balance... | |
 | 1925 - 1104 pages
...to be guarded against by the statute? Does it not enable the party to bring forward stale demands, after a lapse of time, when the proper evidence of...the real state of the transaction cannot be produced f Does it not tend to encourage perjury, by removing the bar, upon slight acknowledgments of an indeterminate... | |
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