 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...  The American Federationist - Page 1921898Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 1096 pages
...to the present subject, it has nothing whatever to do. 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 he injurious to the public, or against the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been,... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 372 pages
...against the principle of the established law." According to Lord Truro (18 Jur. 100), " public policy is that principle of the law which holds, that no...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 to the administration... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 710 pages
...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,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 710 pages
...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 - Conflict of laws - 1868 - 594 pages
...particular law as a key to open its construction. At other times these expressions indicate a principle of law, which holds that no subject can lawfully do that...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 644 pages
...of Justice 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...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 884 pages
...to the present subject, it has nothing whatever to do. Public policy, in relation to this question, is that principle of the law which holds that no subject...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 to the administration... | |
 | John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 846 pages
...being enforced as " 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...or against the public good — which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or ' public policy ' in relation to the administration... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 760 pages
...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... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...statutes or any rule of the common law, are not contrary to ''public policy." which means that principles of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully...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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