 | William Theobald - Agency (Law) - 1832 - 324 pages
...to transfer all his rights in respect of it to the purchaser, the agreement to pay the price is not a promise to answer for the debt of another within the statute ; nor, it may be added, is it a promise of guarantie, because in the contract of guarantie there are... | |
 | William Burge - Bail - 1847 - 626 pages
...distrain for the future rent, and the promise by such third person would, as to that future rent, be a promise to answer for the debt of another within the statute (ni). Where the sheriff had taken goods in execution upon a fieri facias, a promise to the officer... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Contracts - 1847 - 988 pages
...obtained a verdict ; the court afterwards held that the amount could not be recovered, as the promise was a promise to answer for the debt of another within the statute, and there was no written evidence of the consideration. (A) The construction that has been put upon... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - Civil procedure - 1851 - 776 pages
...T. M. according to his promise (Ib.). A promise to a debtor to pay his debt to a third party, is not a promise to answer for the debt of another within the Statute, which applies only to promises made to the person to whom another is answerable (Eastwood v. Kenyon,... | |
 | Francis Towers Streeten, Henry John Hodgson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 818 pages
...one proved, and that no amendment ought to be made ; secondly, that the agreement was an agreement to answer for the debt of another within the Statute of Frauds. Gullr. Lindsay, 18 Law J. Rep. (MS) Exch. 354; 4 Exch. Rep. 45. (C) NOTE OK MEMORANDUM IN WRITING.... | |
 | Chauncey Smith - Law - 1859 - 946 pages
...on whose request and promise it was made, is original, and not collateral ; and his promise is not a promise to " answer for the debt of another" within the Statute of Frauds. Pcarce v. Blagrave, xxx. 510. 3. Agreement by agent. An agreement by a factor to sell upon a del credere... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 660 pages
...in case a libel to enforce a lien npou n similar claim shall be sustained in the admiralty, ia not a promise to answer for the debt of another, within the statute of frauds; and the agreement of the promisee to forbear to enforce his claim in the admiralty is a good consideration... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 808 pages
...that his salary, at the rates agreed on, should amount to a certain sum, — Held, that this was not a promise to answer for the debt of another within the Statute of Frauds, and was valid, although the consideration was not expressed. NY Com. PL, 1854, Douglass c. Jones, 3... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Admiralty - 1869 - 728 pages
...held on his oral promise to pay for them, made for a valuable consideration, such a promise not being a promise to answer for the debt of another within the statute of frauds. 1 the first mortgage, and of the catchings of the vessel. Held that the plaintiffs were entitled to... | |
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Cawog, and in that connection it has been stated, that there is not a contract to answer for the debt of another within the statute of frauds where the alleged guarantor promises the debtor, rather than the creditor to pay the former's debt. 
