 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 - 1894 - 922 pages
...to public policy. ' Public policy is defined as "that principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1210 pages
...Bl. 04; Egerton v. Earl Brownlow, 4 HL Cas. 233. Lord Brougham said: "By public policy is Intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject...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... | |
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1895 - 826 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 be injuriousto-the public, or against the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1148 pages
...64; Egerton v. Earl Browulotv, 4 II. L. Cas. 230. Lord 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 injurions to the public, or is against the public good." Egerton v. Earl Brownlow, supra. The trouble... | |
 | Law - 1895 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | Colorado. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 666 pages
...Bl. 64 ; Egerton v. Earl of Brownlow, 4 HLC 235. Lord Brougham said: "B}r public policy is intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject...which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or is against the public good." Egerton v. Earl of Brownlow, supra. The trouble is not in the principle... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 774 pages
...gambling element entered into the contract of insurance. "Public policy is that principle of law \vhich holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has...injurious to the public or against the public good. ' ' It may be true as an abstract proposition of law that a corporation has no insurable interest iu... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 780 pages
...policy, and therefore void. 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 from which the common law is supplied. Greenhood... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Hun, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 734 pages
...appellant, public policy is defined as follows : " That principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, may be termed the policy of the la\v, the public policy in relation to the administration of the law."... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Hirschl - Consolidation and merger of corporations - 1896 - 682 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... | |
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