 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 - 1901 - 250 pages
...Clifton Heights, 119. 58. Publ c policy Is that principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfu ly do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the nubile good. — I*. HIGH CONSTABLE, 65-7. ORDINANCE. 59. A borough ordinance passed prior to the passage... | |
 | George William Warvelle - Real property - 1902 - 684 pages
...as the term is used in the foregoing paragraph, 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 which is contrary to the general welfare of society. It has been said, that public policy is a variable... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1040 pages
...he was apprehended, 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... | |
 | John Cleland Wells, William Pope Duvall Bush, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - Law - 1903 - 1154 pages
...dissenting opinion : No principle of law is better established than that one can not 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... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 858 pages
...Ind. 439, 33 LRA 313; Black, Intox. Liquors, §45. The "public policy," of the law is that principle which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which...tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the 11. public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in relation to the administration... | |
 | Emerson E. Ballard, Tilghman Ethan Ballard - Real property - 1904 - 948 pages
...this court said : '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.' The question, then, in this case to determine, is, does the condition in the deed have a tendency to... | |
 | Thomas Benton Edgington - Monroe doctrine - 1904 - 368 pages
...policy is defined in the text-books 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 law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1070 pages
...This contract is assailed on the ground of public policy. Lord Brougham defined "public policy" as "that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do 62 LRA that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which may... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 986 pages
...policy has ever been given orean be found. Speaking generally, the principle which holds (bat no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to tbe public, or against tbe public good, may be termed the policy of the law or public policy in relation... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1906 - 494 pages
...applied to the present subject, it has nothing to do. Public policy, in relation to this question, is that principle of the law which holds that no subject...injurious to the public, or against the public good.' It is true indeed that contracts hostile to friendly States will not be enforced, and so in De Wiitz... | |
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