 It is perhaps correct .to say that public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good...  Atlantic Reporter - Página 2731905Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1854
...Lord Truro (18 Jur. 100), " public policy is that principle of the law which holds, that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910
...judged according to its own peculiar circumstances, testing it by the general rule that "no citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good." Railroad Co. v. Raihvay Co. 93 Fed. Rep. 543; Egerton v. Brownlow, 4 HL Cas. 196; Brush v. Carbondale,... | |
 | John William Smith - 1868 - 559 páginas
...construction. At other times these expressions indicate a principle of law, which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good (i)• If this be understood as the public good, recognised and protected by the most general maxims... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - 1872
...would give no assistance to the enforcement of a contract opposed to public policy, and no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. There being no Indian precedent bearing on the subject, the plaintiff desired a reference under s.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1870
...Public policy, in relation to this question, is that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation... | |
 | John Shortt - 1871 - 780 páginas
...opposed to sound or public policy," this is in accordance with the principle of law that " no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to "be injurious to the public or against the public good — which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or ' public policy ' in relation... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1918
...public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do Opinion I'cr Curiam. that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which it may be designated, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law or public policy in relation... | |
 | 1921
...not contrary to ''public policy." which means that principles of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. — Nashville Ry. & Light Co. v. Lawson, Tenn., 229 SW 741. 21. Corporation* — Cancellation of Stock.... | |
 | 1921
...however, often approved Lord Brogham's definition of public policy as the principle which declares that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public welfare. This principle it has been said, may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in... | |
 | JAMES APPLETON MORGAN - 1875
...common law that nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum^ or, as Lord Truro stated it, " No subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, ' the policy of the law/ " 2 and therefore the... | |
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