 | Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 pages
...using influence to obtain a pardon. Legislators should act from high considerations of public duty. Public policy and sound morality do therefore imperatively...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided." Marshall v. Baltimore fy Ohio JR. R. Co. 16 How. 334. Generally speaking, no illegality being disclosed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 pages
...using influence to obtain a pardon. Legislators should act from high considerations of public duty. Public policy and sound morality do therefore imperatively...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided. All persons whose interests may in any way be affected by Marshall >•. Baltimore and Ohio Kailroad... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1864 - 624 pages
...general principles? It is said in the case cited in 16 Howard, that " public policy and sound morality do imperatively require that courts should put the stamp...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided." 334. In the case just cited the contract was not enforced, and it is argued that, " bribes in the shape... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - 1868 - 858 pages
...legislative action, the contract respecting it is void. The learned judge, in deciding the case, says : " Public policy and sound morality do therefore imperatively require that courts should put the stamp Opinion by Hrar, J. of their disapprobation on every act, and pronounce void every contract, the ultimate... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 788 pages
...using influence to obtain a pardon. Legislators should act from high considerations of public duty. Public policy and sound morality do therefore imperatively...should put the stamp of their disapprobation on every Marshall v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. 16 H. act, and pronounce void every contract the ultimate... | |
 | 1896 - 866 pages
...imperatively require that courts shall condemn every act, and pronounce void every contract, the elements or probable tendency of which would be to sully the purity or mislead the judgment of those to whom official position lias been intrusted ; " and this court, in Chippewa Valley... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1876 - 678 pages
...using influence to obtain a pardon. Legislators should act from high considerations of public duty. Public policy and sound morality do therefore imperatively...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided. "All persons whose interests may in any way be affected by any public or private act of the legislature... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1876 - 692 pages
...social or political institutions. . . . Legislators should act from high considerations of public duty. Public policy and sound morality do therefore imperatively...act and pronounce void every contract the ultimate [ju. immediate '?] or probable tendency of which would be to sully the purity or mislead the judgments... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1876 - 694 pages
...their disapprobation on every act and pronounce void every contract the ultimate [r^u. immediate?] or probable tendency of which would be to sully the...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided." [The judgment then points out that persons interested in the results of pending legislation have a... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1878 - 734 pages
...social or political institutions. . . . Legislators should act from high considerations of public duty. Public policy and sound morality do therefore imperatively...put the stamp of their disapprobation on every act nud pronounce void every contract the ultimate [7". immediate ?] or probable tendency of which would... | |
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Legislators should act from high considerations of public duty. Public policy and sound morality do, therefore, imperatively require that courts should put the stamp of their disapprobation on every act. and pronounce void every contract the ultimate... 
