 | Law - 1854 - 372 pages
...Lord Truro (18 Jur. 100), " public policy is that principle of the law which holds, that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the 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... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 710 pages
...judged according to its own peculiar circumstances, testing it by the general rule that "no citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good." Railroad Co. v. Raihvay Co. 93 Fed. Rep. 543; Egerton v. Brownlow, 4 HL Cas. 196; Brush v. Carbondale,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 710 pages
...contract in question was clearly against the public policy of this State, — that is, that it had a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, — or if it were in violation of a statute or some rule of the common law, it is true that the courts... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 644 pages
...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 to be injurious to the public or against the public good. There being no Indian precedent bearing on the subject, the plaintiff desired a reference under s.... | |
 | John William Smith - Conflict of laws - 1868 - 594 pages
...construction. At other times these expressions indicate a principle of law, which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good (i)• If this be understood as the public good, recognised and protected by the most general maxims... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 884 pages
...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 injurious to the 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... | |
 | John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 846 pages
...opposed to sound or public policy," this is in accordance with the principle of law that " no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to "be injurious to the 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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 760 pages
...public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do Opinion I'cr Curiam. that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which it may be designated, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law or public policy in relation... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 496 pages
...not contrary to ''public policy." which means that principles of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. — Nashville Ry. & Light Co. v. Lawson, Tenn., 229 SW 741. 21. Corporation* — Cancellation of Stock.... | |
 | John William Smith - Conflict of laws - 1878 - 596 pages
...construction. At other times these expressions indicate a principle of law, which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good.(z') If this be understood as the public good, recognised and protected by the most general maxims... | |
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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... 
