 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 - 1896 - 922 pages
...decisions of slate courts. 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 (rood. People v. Chicago Ga* Trust Co. 130 111. 268, 8 LRA 487; Graft v. UeConoitahv. 79 111. 346,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1026 pages
...end 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 tihe public or against the public good. This principle owes its existence to the very sources from... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1248 pages
...Greenhood in his work on Public Policy (page 2) makes this statement, viz.: "By 'public policy' is intended that principle of the law which holds that no subject...do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the publicor against the public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach - Antitrust law - 1898 - 842 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... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1898 - 796 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 bo injurious to the public, or against tho public good ; which may be termed, ns it sometimes has been,... | |
 | Frederick Hale Cooke - Antitrust law - 1898 - 254 pages
...(1889), public policy is defined as "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." See also Greenhood on Public Policy, p. 2. icy involves, as an essential element, the idea of a wrong... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1022 pages
...this statement, viz: "By 'public policy' is intended that principle of the law which holds that 321 no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to thepublic or against the public good, which may be termed thepolicy of the law, or public policy in... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - Bar associations - 1899 - 718 pages
...of Law defines it thus: "The principle of law which holds that no one can lawfully do that which haa a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1928 - 774 pages
...effect only if the donee during his lifetime obtained the title of Duke or Marquis of Bridgewater — "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... | |
 | Arthur Jerome Eddy - Antitrust law - 1901 - 722 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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