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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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A Treatise on the Law of Public Offices and Officers

Floyd Russell Mechem - 1890 - 890 pages
...says a writer upon that subject, 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 pnblio policy in relation to the administration of the...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 13

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1890 - 998 pages
...public policy, says: "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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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeal, Volume 17

Ontario. Court of Appeal, James Stewart Tupper, Richard Scougall Cassels - 1890 - 590 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 public policy in relation...
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The New South Wales Law Reports, 1880-1900, Volume 11

New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1890 - 874 pages
...''public policy." He says, " ' 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." Now, in the case before us the action is brought to recover a sum of money promised to the plaintiff...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and ...

Abraham Clark Freeman - 1891 - 1034 pages
...considered of full force until repealed by legislative authority." Public policy is that principle of the law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully...very sources from which the common law is supplied: Greenhood on Public Policy, 2, 3. The common law will not permit individuals to oblige themselves by...
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Contractual Limitations: Including Trade Strikes and Conspiracies and ...

Charles Andrew Ray - 1892 - 580 pages
...public policy is manifested by the legislation or fundamental law of the State.1 It is, in most states, provided that the common law of England, so far as...This principle owes its existence to the very sources 1'rom which the common law is supplied.' The common law will not permit individuals to oblige themselves...
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, Volume 19

John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - 1892 - 1220 pages
...the advertisement is set up in a PUBLIC POLICY.— That principle of the law, which holds that no one can lawfully do that which has 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.1...
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The Weekly Reporter: Appellate High Court, Volume 18

David Sutherland - 1892 - 732 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 a reference under section...
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United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports: With Key-number ..., Volume 44

1901 - 822 pages
...he was appretended, 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? Can contracts be based on the...
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Rapports judiciaires revises de la Province de Quebec ...

Michel Mathieu - 1893 - 532 pages
...to public policy," reference is made to that principle of law, in accordance with which 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 public policy, in relation...
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