 | John Haggard, Great Britain. High Court of Delegates - Ecclesiastical law - 1829 - 890 pages
...reason and procourts of Kiiir- • , • , 1111 i • i- 13 und from the priety ; it would be hard it a man could comPlain of the breach of a contract which he has of recrimination violated i if he could complain of an injury or cmnpensatio ' /> i is a when he is... | |
 | Great Britain, Great Britain. Courts - Divorce - 1832 - 578 pages
...The doctrine, that this if proved is a valid plea in bar, has its foundation in reason and propriety: it would be hard if a man could complain of the breach...which he has violated; if he could complain of an injury when he is open to a charge of the same nature. It is not unfit if he, who is the guardian of... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Divorce - 1841 - 532 pages
...eriminum, a set-off of equal guilt on the part of the complainant, is founded in reason and propriety ; it would be hard if a man could complain of the breach ot a contract which he has violated ; if he could complain of an injury when he is open to a charge... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1852 - 782 pages
...congenial soil. " The doctrine," observes Lord Stowell, " has its foundation in reason and propriety. It would be hard if a man could complain of the breach...which he has violated ; if he could complain of an injury, when he is open to a charge of the same nature. It is not unfit, if he, who is the guardian... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 744 pages
...Stowell, " that this, if proved, is a valid plea in bar, has its foundation in reason and propriety; it would be hard if a man could complain of the breach of a contract which he has violated; if hecould complain of an injury when he ia open to the charge of the same nature. It is not unfit, if... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - Children - 1868 - 984 pages
...court with clean hands. This doctrine, said Lord Stowell, has its foundation in reason and propriety. It would be hard if a man could complain of the breach...which he has violated ; if he could complain of an injury, when he is open to a charge of the same nature. It is not unfit, if he who is the guardian... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1881 - 786 pages
...congenial soil. "The doctrine," observes Lord Stowell, " has its foundation in reason and propriety. It would be hard if a man could complain of the breach...which he has violated ; if he could complain of an injury, when he is open to a charge of the same nature. It is not unfit, if he who is the guardian... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Divorce - 1891 - 858 pages
...Ecclesiastical Judges. — "The doctrine," observes Lord Stowcll, " has its foundation in reason and propriety. It would be hard if a man could complain of the breach...which he has violated ; if he could complain of an injury when he is open to a charge of the same nature. It is not unfit, if he who is the guardian of... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1900 - 778 pages
...parties are guilty." " The doctrine," says Lord Stovell, " has its foundation in reason and propriety. It would be hard if a man could complain of the breach of a contract which he has violated . . . The parties may . . . find sources of mutual forgiveness in the humiliation of mutual guilt.'"... | |
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The doctrine, that this if proved is a valid plea in bar, has its foundation in reason and propriety: it would be hard if a man could complain of the breach of a contract which he has violated; if he could complain of an injury when he is open to a charge... 
