 | 1909 - 1182 pages
...of what the best interests of the city require. The principle that one cannot lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public has no application, because there is no contract or agreement on the part of the city to stifle competition.... | |
 | 1909 - 1164 pages
...of what the best interests of the city require. The principle that one cannot lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public has no application, because there is no contract or agreement on the part of the city to stifle competition.... | |
 | William Blake Odgers, Walter Blake Odgers - 1911 - 962 pages
...grave misdemeanours, 5 or iu any Avay to pervert the course of justice. 0 And generally '~no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good." 7 Thus, " when a bribe is given, or a promise of a bribe is made, to a person in the employ of another... | |
 | 1922 - 1260 pages
...this question, is that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which Las 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... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - 1912 - 630 pages
...court wills it to mean. A standard definition is : "That 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." (4 H. L., Cas. r ; Greenh. "Public Policy" 2.) Regardless of whose should be the right to determine... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.), Howard Strickland Abbott - 1913 - 496 pages
...defined as follows: "By public policy is intended 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. "8 It is a term which is indefinite both in its meaning and application, and should be adopted as a... | |
 | Nathan Boone Williams - 1914 - 502 pages
...such public policy is maniftftiil by the legislation or fundamental law of the State. Public policy ii that principle of the law which holds that no subject...lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to Ihe publi> 'T against the public good. This principle owes its existence to the vprv sources from which... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1914 - 824 pages
...and embraces their general purpose and spirit; it 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 as ascertained or measured by the settled policy of the state or government, found in its constitutions,... | |
 | James McSherry, Nicholas Charles Burke - 1914 - 428 pages
...be found. Speaking generally, the principle which holds that no one can lawfully do that which his a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the law.... | |
 | 1914 - 1380 pages
...687. "Lord Brougham defined 'public policy' as that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the pnbllc or against the public good, which may be term-' ed the policy of the law, or public policy in... | |
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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... 
