...them, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise should be made or contained by or in some writing to be signed by the party chargeable thereby. Provided always that nothing therein contained should alter or take away, or lessen the effect of any...

...the party liable or hi» agent, or by part payment. By Lord Tenterden's Act the acknowledgment must be made or contained by or in some writing, to be signed by the party chargeable. (See Whippy and another P. Hilling, 9 Bing. 399.) As these variances, however, relate more to the law...

...joint-contractors, or executraciurs. tors or administrators of any contractor, no such jointcontractor, executor, or administrator shall lose the benefit of the said enactments or either of them, so as might have been dealings and transactions within the time of the statute."—Per Lord Hardwicke,...

...confess one which I thought of importance. It is CRAWFORD. said by the statute that no co-contractor " shall lose the benefit " of the said enactments, or either of them, so as to be chargeable " in respect or by reason of any written acknowledgment or promise " made and...

...take any case out of the operation of the said enactments, or either of them, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment...writing, to be signed by the party chargeable thereby (c) ; and (o) Lay T. WNeU, 4 Dowl. & D. Lord Tenterden, 8 Barn. & Cres. Ryl. 7. 38. (6) Pittam v. Foster,...

...whereby to take any case out of the operation of the act 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment or promise shall be made in some writing, to be signed by the party chargeable ; and where there shall be two or more joint...

...promise by defendant's intestate to pay this his several promissory note. St. 9 G. 4, cap. 14, enacts that where there shall be two or more joint contractors...administrator, shall lose the benefit of the said enactments (subintell. Statutes of Limitation), or either of them, so as to be chargeable in respect or by reason...

...sufficient," &c. But in the enacting part which follows, the terms are, " unless such acknowledgmeat or promise shall be made or contained by or in some writing to be signed by the party chargeable PARTRIDGE. thereby." In effect, the first part of the clause merely adverts to the existing state of...

...take any case out of the operation of the said enactments, or cither of them, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment...or promise shall be made or contained by or in some wrilitiy (p) to be siyned by the party chargeable thereby (rj); and that where there shall be two or...

...of 10 Car. I. Sess. 2. c. 6, both previously mentioned), or either of them, or to deprive any party of the benefit thereof, unless such acknowledgment...writing, to be signed by the party chargeable thereby." Now although it be true, that we have, in the construction of our Act of Limitations, followed the...