However, even if such promises of candidates for the electoral college are legallyunenforceable because violative of an assumed constitutional freedom of the elector under the Constitution, Art.
A statute of the Choctaw Nation providing for the forfeiture and sale of buildings erected on their lands, was held to be unenforceable without giving the builder an opportunity to be heard.
Such cases arise largely where there has been a partial performance of an illegal contract, or of a contract unenforceable because of non-compliance with the statute of frauds, or where full performance is excused by impossibility.
Hence, an agreement to sell goods is unenforceable if not supported by consideration.
An unenforceable contract is one which in itself is perfectly good as a contract, but because of some rule of law cannot be enforced.
Contracts are also divided into void, voidable and unenforceable contracts.
A promise to make a gift is always unenforceable because the very idea of a gift negatives any idea of consideration.
Likewise one who, relying on an unenforceable contract, constructed a wood-chopping machine that was not accepted could not recover for the value of his labor and materials.
Thus, a son worked for his father on his father's farm under anunenforceable contract with his uncle.
Laws that make a claim unenforceable in court do not destroy the natural right of the claimant.
Thus, sometimes the law makes a contract unenforceable in court, though the natural obligation is not affected.
Every valid contract obliges to faithful performance as a duty of conscience, even though it be unenforceable and without civil obligation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unenforceable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
