 | 1854 - 372 páginas
...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 - 710 páginas
...Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. RS TUTHILL, Judge, presiding. BULKLEY, GRAY & MORE, for appellant: Public policy is that principle of law which holds...injurious to the public or against the public good. Page on Contracts, sec. 326; People v. Gas Trust Co. 130 111. 268; 2 Bouvier's Law Dict. 792. Whether... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 710 páginas
...contract in question was clearly against the public policy of this State, — that is, that it had a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, — or if it were in violation of a statute or some rule of the common law, it is true that the courts... | |
 | John William Smith - 1868 - 594 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 - 644 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 s.... | |
 | 1890 - 548 páginas
...so far as [the same is applicable aud of a general nature, * * * shall be the rule of decision, aud shall be considered of full force until repealed by...citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurions to the public, or against the public good. This principle owes iis existense to the very... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 1870 - 884 páginas
...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 - 846 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 - 760 páginas
...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 - 496 páginas
...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.... | |
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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... 
