 | 1929 - 766 pages
...public policy, freedom of contract will be restrained for the good of the community — no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public good. Eyerlon v. Earl Brotcnlow (1853), 4 HLC 1, 196. applied. The duty of friendly nations towards... | |
 | George William Warvelle - 1902 - 684 pages
...as the term is used in the foregoing paragraph, 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 which is contrary to the general welfare of society. It has been said, that public policy is a variable... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1903 - 1084 pages
...public policy, unless the advantage to the public from so holding is certain and substantial, (p. 210.) PUBLIC POLICY is That Principle of Law which holds...injurious to the public or against the public good. (p. 211.) DEEDS. — A Condition in a Deed That no Grain Elevator shall ever be built on the four village... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1903 - 1072 pages
...publie policy, unless the advantage to the public from so holding is certain and substantial, (p. 210.) PUBLIC POLICY is That Principle of Law which holds...citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to b« injurious to the public or against the public good. (p. 211.) DEEDS. — A Condition in a Deed... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1903 - 878 pages
...therefore, void. "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... | |
 | 1903 - 1046 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? Can contracts be based on the... | |
 | John Cleland Wells, William Pope Duvall Bush, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - 1903 - 1154 pages
...dissenting opinion : No principle of law is better established than that one can not 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... | |
 | Emerson E. Ballard, Tilghman Ethan Ballard - 1904 - 952 pages
...Rep. 798; 8 LRA 497; 17 Am. St. Rep. 319), this court said : 'Public policy is that principle of the law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully...injurious to the public, or against the public good.' The question, then, in this case to determine, is, does the condition in the deed have a tendency to... | |
 | Thomas Benton Edgington - 1904 - 368 pages
...policy is defined in the text-books as follows: "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.... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - 1910 - 858 pages
...Intox. Liquors, §45. The "public policy," of the law is that principle which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the 11. public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in relation to the administration... | |
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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... 
