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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... "
American Railroad and Corporation Reports: Being a Collection of the Current ... - Page 575
edited by - 1890
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 60

1905 - 1166 pages
...policy" has ever been given or can Ъе found. Speaking generally, the principle which holds that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the pubflc good may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in relation to the administration...
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 63

1906 - 1156 pages
...§ 467. The principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good is well settled, and may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration...
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The South Western Reporter, Volume 207

1919 - 1128 pages
...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, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 207

1919 - 1122 pages
...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 Rood, which may be designntecl, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 72

1903 - 1254 pages
...933, this language is found: "That principle of law which holds that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against public good is well settled, and may be termed the policy of the law. And courts have not hesitated...
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Harvard Law Review, Volume 20

1907 - 728 pages
...justice. A contract of the kind under consideration bears no resemblance to any of these. It has no tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good; nor would any principle of public welfare or morality be infringed. It would seem as though there could...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 68

1902 - 1258 pages
...J. (dissenting). No principle of law Is better established than that one cannot lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public morals; and the courts have never hesitated, where future illicit intercourse enters into a contract...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 146

1914 - 1254 pages
...complexional view of the abstract morality of the question. Public policy is the principle of law that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. It is ascertained from the established law of the state, whether found in the Constitution, the statutes,...
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Arkansas Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 63

Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1897 - 700 pages
...statement, viz.: "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, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the administration of the...
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The New York Supplement, Volume 168

1918 - 1258 pages
...void, as against "public policy." which Is the principle of law that no one can lawfully do that whk-h has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. [Ed. Note. — For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, First and Second Series, Public Policy.]...
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