Supreme Court of Alabama June 15, 1843 (O'Donnell v. Sweeney)
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United States · · · 15-06-1843
ORMOND, J.
It is a settled principle of the common law, that all contracts which are founded on an act prohibited by a statute under a penalty, are void, although not expressly declared to be so. [Wilson v. Spencer, 1 Rand. 76; Comyn on Con. 26; Collins v. Blanton, 2 Wilson, 341; Drury v. Defontaine, 1 Taun. 135.
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