 | 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... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 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... | |
 | John William Smith - 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... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - 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... | |
 | John Shortt - 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,... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1918 - 760 pages
...easy to give a precise definition of public policy. It is perhaps correct to say that 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... | |
 | 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*... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 538 pages
...common law that nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum^ or, as Lord Truro stated it, " No subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, ' the policy of the law/ " 2 and therefore the... | |
 | 1901 - 2042 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?... | |
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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, which may be designated, as it sometimes has been,... 
