 | Alberta. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 584 pages
...relation to the one agreement relied upon and to no other-. It must be such, in Lord Hardwicke's words 'as could be done with no other view or design than to perform that agreement.' It must be sufficient of itself and without any other information or evidence to satisfy... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 686 pages
...adopt the doctrine? As was laid down by Lord Hardwicke in Gunter v. Halsey (1739), Amb. 586, the acts must be such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement. "All the authorities shew," said Lord Selborne in Maddison \. Alderson, sup., at p. 479, 'that the... | |
 | Delaware. Court of Chancery - Equity - 1917 - 604 pages
...language of the Chancellor in Gunter v. Halsey, Ambler, 586: "And as to the acts done in part performance they must be such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement." The same court, in the following year, in Townsend v. Houston, 1 Harr. 532, 543 (27 Am. Dec. 732) said:... | |
 | Joseph Story - Equity - 1918 - 708 pages
...distinctions upon the question, what acts amount to a part performance. The general rule is, that the acts must be such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement, and not such as are merely introductory or ancillary to it. Gunter v. Halsey, Ambl. 586 ; Whitbread... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - Law - 1919 - 1600 pages
...Townsend T. 260 said that an agreement will not be considered as partly executed unless the acts done are such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement.8 Under this rule it naturally follows that acts done prior to the making of an agreement... | |
 | Alured Myddelton Wilshere - Equity - 1920 - 620 pages
...own nature referable to some such agreement as that alleged by the plaintiff, and such as could bo done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement (y). The doctrine of part performance is particularly applicable to verbal contracts relating to land... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1018 pages
...be of such an unequivocal nature as of themselves to be evidence of the execution of an agreement. They must be such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement. They must unequivocally refer to and result from an agreement and be such as the party would not have... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 856 pages
...be of such an unequivocal nature as of themselves to be evidence of the execution of an agreement. They must be such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement. They must unequivocally refer to and result from an agreement and be such as the party would not have... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 876 pages
...relied apon, and to no other. It must be such, in Lord Hardwicke's words (Gunter v. Halsey, ubi sup.), " as could be done with no other view or design than to perform that agreement." It must be sufficient of itself, and without any other information or evidence, to... | |
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They must be such as could be done with no other view or design than to perform the agreement. 
