 | William Roberts - Evidence (Law) - 1807 - 522 pages
...transaction, it is not within the statute. great point of the adjudication, in Chater v. Beckett, -viz. that a parol promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do tome other thing, is void as to both, by the statute of frauds, such contract being entire and incapable... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 736 pages
...the poods as would take the case out of the statute of fiauds. Kent v. Huskinson. 3 B. & P. 233 iG. A parol promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other tiling, is void by the statute of fiauds. Chater v. Beckett. 7 TK 'JO l 17- A, being insolvent, a verba!... | |
 | Nicholas Baylies - Law reports, digests, etc - 1814 - 478 pages
...goods as would take the case of the stat. frauds. Kent v. Huskinson. ะท Bos. $ Pull. 233. 85 A paroi promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other thing, is void by the statute of frauds. Chater v. Beckett. 7 Term Rep. 201. 36 A. being insolvent, a verbal... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - Contracts - 1824 - 680 pages
...the sum due upon the note, without the costs and expences of the action against Taylor and Son. So, a parol promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other act, is void by the statute, the contract being entire. This was settled in the case of Chater v. Beckett... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Niel Gow - Commercial law - 1828 - 266 pages
...contemplated the granting an interest in land. In Charter v. Beckett, 7 TR 201., it was decided, that a paroi promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do...it is to allege all its parts. In the statement of 1819 . the consideration in the declaration part of it is ., alleged to have been, " that the plaintiffs... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Commercial law - 1831 - 360 pages
...infant, need not be in writing, because the infant is not bound. 1 Bur. 373. A promise without writing, to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other tiling, is void for both. 7 TR 201. Where the promise to pay the debt of another, is made by an instrument... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Commercial law - 1833 - 400 pages
...infant, need not bo in writing, because the infant is not bound. 1 Bur. 373. A promise without writing, to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other thing, is void for both. 7 TR 201. Where the promise to pay the debt of another, is made by an instrument... | |
 | Samuel Bealey Harrison, Frederic Edwards - Nisi prius - 1838 - 908 pages
...the debt, default, or miscarriages of another person" (g). Under this clause it has been determined that a parol promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other thing, is void ; and that the two parts of such a contract cannot be separated (A). It is not necessary to... | |
 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1841 - 590 pages
...the latter owed the plaintiff, in pursuance of the order of JS falls within the same principle. (m) A parol promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other act, is void for the whole, the contract being entire. (n) It has been held that a parol promise by... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 892 pages
...effect, and, unless it can be sustained to its full extent, it fails altogether. It is like the case of a parol promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other thing, which is one indivisible contract, and the plaintiff cannot recover on any part : Chafer v. Beckett... | |
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If there be an oral promise to pay the debt of another, and also to do some other thing, this last can be enforced at law, if this other thing, and so much of the promise as relates to it, can be severed from the debt of the other and the promise relating... 
