 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
 | Ontario. Court of Appeal, James Stewart Tupper, Richard Scougall Cassels - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 590 pages
...confounded with what may be termed political policy. * * 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... | |
 | New South Wales. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 874 pages
...Lord Brougham in the same case, at p. 196, thus defines ''public policy." He says, " ' public policy ' is that principle of the law which holds that no subject...injurious to the public or against the public good." Now, in the case before us the action is brought to recover a sum of money promised to the plaintiff... | |
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1890 - 816 pages
...policy — monopolies 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. Whatever tends to create a monopoly is contrary to public policy. Ibid. 8. Right to proceeds of contract... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1034 pages
...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 - India - 1892 - 732 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 section... | |
 | Charles Andrew Ray - Antitrust law - 1892 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1901 - 822 pages
...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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 534 pages
...as opposed 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...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... | |
 | New York (State). Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 822 pages
...and unenforcible. Whether a contract is contrary to public policy, that principle of la"w that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public Misc.] Supreme Court, February, 1914. good, is to be ascertained from the law of the state as found... | |
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