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 - 1905 - 1166 pages
...policy" has ever been given or can Ъе found. Speaking generally, the principle which holds that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the pubflc good may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in relation to the administration... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1154 pages
...§ 467. The principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good is well settled, and may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1130 pages
...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...the public or against the public good, which may be designated, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1244 pages
...Greenhood in his work ou Public Policy (page 2) makes this statement, viz.: "By 'public policy' is intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to Ъе injurious to the public or against the public good, which may be termed the policy of the law,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1122 pages
...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 Rood, which may be designntecl, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1254 pages
...933, this language is found: "That principle of law which holds that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against public good is well settled, and may be termed the policy of the law. And courts have not hesitated... | |
| Electronic journals - 1907 - 728 pages
...justice. A contract of the kind under consideration bears no resemblance to any of these. It has no tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good; nor would any principle of public welfare or morality be infringed. It would seem as though there could... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1252 pages
...J. (dissenting). No principle of law Is better established than that one cannot lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public morals; and the courts have never hesitated, where future illicit intercourse enters into a contract... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1254 pages
...complexional view of the abstract morality of the question. Public policy is the principle of law that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. It is ascertained from the established law of the state, whether found in the Constitution, the statutes,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1258 pages
...void, as against "public policy." which Is the principle of law that no one can lawfully do that whk-h has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. [Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Public Policy.]... | |
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