 No court of justice can in its nature be made the handmaid of iniquity. Courts are instituted to carry into effect the laws of the country. How can they become auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law? There can be no civil right where there...  The South Western Reporter - Page 121921Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - Court rules - 1829 - 758 pages
...contracts are void in law, upon general principles. The answer would seem to be plain and obvious, that no court of justice can in its nature be made the...Courts are instituted to carry into effect the laws [Bank of the United States fs. Owens and others.] of a country, how can they then become auxiliary... | |
 | Jeremiah W. Blydenburgh - Interest - 1844 - 364 pages
...contract to do that which it is unlawful to do. The answer would seem to be plain and obvious, that no court of justice can, in its nature, be made the...they then become auxiliary to the consummation of violating the laws 1 There can be no civil right where there can be no legal remedy ; and there can... | |
 | Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...contracts are void in law, upon general principles. " The answer would seem to be plain and obvious, that no court of justice can in its nature be made the...auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law ? " To enumerate here all the instances and cases in which this reasoning has been practically implied,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 536 pages
...Large, 272. Bank of the United States v. Owens. 2 P. The answer would seem to be plain and obvious, that no court of justice can in its nature be made the handmaid of iniquity. [ * 539 ] Courts are instituted to carry into effect the laws * of a country ; how can they, then,... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 576 pages
...necessary to consummate the offense. There can be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal ; for no court of justice can in its nature be made the handmaid of iniquity. And there is no distinction as to violating the contract, between malum in se, and malum prohibitum.... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 718 pages
...the Bank of the United States v. Owens, (2 Peters, 257,) " would seem to be plain and obvious, that no court of justice can in its nature be made the...auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law ?" The long established maxim of the law, " ex turpi causa non oritur actio," is equally applicable... | |
 | Elliott Anthony - Railroad law - 1865 - 320 pages
...unauthorized, what is the duty of this court? "The answer would seem to be plain and obvious, that no court of justice can« in its nature, be made the handmaid of iniquity. Courts are insti tuted to carry into effect the laws of a country; how, then, can they become auxiliary to the... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 700 pages
...Court of the United States, 2 Peters, 527 and 538, say: "Courts are instituted to carry into ellect the laws of a country, how can they then become auxiliary...of violations of law. * * * There can be no civil rigtit where there can be no legal remedy; and there can be no legal remedy for that which is itself... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 834 pages
...of them, legal obligations, such as this court will enforce? The proposition is simply ridiculous. No court of justice can, in its nature, be made the...to carry into effect the laws of a country. How can the3', then, become auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law by enforcing the execution of... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 598 pages
...whether such contracts are void in law on general principles. The answer would seem to be obvious, that no court of justice can in its nature be made the...carry into effect the laws of a country. How can they become auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law?" The case of the Bank of United States v.... | |
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