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Everet v Williams
English court case in 1725 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"John Everet" redirects here. For people with similar names, see John Everett (disambiguation).
Everet v Williams [1725] (also known as the "Highwayman's Case") is an English court case dating back to 1725, regarding the enforceability of contracts to commit crimes. In this case, the contract was to share the spoils of armed robbery, which the court refused to uphold.[1][2]
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Full case name | John Everet v Joseph Williams |
Decided | 1725 |
Citations | 2 Pothier on Obligations 3 9 LQR 197 |
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There are no contemporaneous reports of the case surviving, and most references to it relate to a summary of the case found in the 1893 Law Quarterly Review, which in turn relies upon a text from 1802, an English translation of a French work on the law of obligations by Robert Joseph Pothier.[3]