 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
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1891 - 1034 páginas
...legislative authority." Public policy is that principle of the law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be Injurious to the public or against the public good. This principle owes its existence to the very sources from which the common law is supplied: Greenhood... | |
 | David Sutherland - 1892 - 732 páginas
...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 section... | |
 | Charles Andrew Ray - 1892 - 580 páginas
...legislative authority. Public policy is that principle of law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good. This principle owes its existence to the very sources 1'rom which the common law is supplied.' The... | |
 | 1901 - 822 páginas
...he was appretended, convicted, and executed. It is well settled that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. Can there be a legal life insurance against the miscarriage of justice? Can contracts be based on the... | |
 | Michel Mathieu - 1893 - 534 páginas
...to public policy," reference is made to that principle of law, in accordance with which 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... | |
 | New York (State). Courts - 1914 - 822 páginas
...the state and unenforceable. Whether a contract is contrary to public policy, that principle of law that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to bc' injurious to the public, or against the public good, is to be ascertained from the law of the state... | |
 | 1894 - 922 páginas
...sense of beiug contrary to public policy. ' Public policy is defined as "that principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfully do that which...injurious to the public, or a'gainst the public good." 19 Am. & Eng. Ene. Law, 565; Egerton v. Broitnlow, 4 HL Cas. 1: Swann v. Swann, 21 Fed. Rep. 299; Dames... | |
 | John Lewis - 1895 - 826 páginas
...which holds' that no subject or citizen can lawfully do * Reported in 160 Mass. 50; 35 NE Rep. 98. that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good." People ex rel. Peabody v. Chicago Gas Trust, 1 Am. RR & Corp. Rep. 562, 575. And again : " Whatever... | |
 | 1895 - 794 páginas
...of public policy. By public policy is intended that principle of- the law which holds that no person can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or is against the public good. Hence it fo'lows that an agreement to do an unlawful act canuot.be supported... | |
 | 1895 - 1210 páginas
...Brougham said: "By public policy is Intended 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 is against the public good." Egerton v. Earl Brownlow, supra. The trouble is not in the principle of... | |
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