 | 1904 - 1068 pages
...defined "public policy" as "that principle of the law which holds that no subject can lawfully do 62 LRA 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... | |
 | 1905 - 1010 pages
...decide the question ol public policy for themselves, and are not bound by decisions of stale courts. Public policy is that principle of law which holds...injurious to the public, or against the public good. People v. Chicago Gas Trust Co. 130 111. 268, 8 LRA 497; Craft v. ЫсСолош/пу, 79 111. 346,... | |
 | 1905 - 988 pages
...policy has ever been given orean be found. Speaking generally, the principle which holds (bat no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to tbe public, or against tbe public good, may be termed the policy of the law or public policy in relation... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1906 - 494 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.' It is true indeed that contracts hostile to friendly States will not be enforced, and so in De Wiitz... | |
 | Illinois. Courts - 1907 - 742 pages
...Monopolies. 1. DEFINED. By public policy is intended 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, which may be termed a policy of the law or public policy in the administration of the law. Taylor v.... | |
 | Railroad Commission of Wisconsin - 1915 - 1062 pages
...effect." p. 5. "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... | |
 | 1908 - 1042 pages
...convicted, and executed. It is well settled that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has n 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... | |
 | 1909 - 1296 pages
...326), says: "Contracts are against public policy when they tend to injure the state or the public. 'Public policy is that principle of law which holds...Injurious to the public or against the public good.' " Many cases are dted by counsel for the respondents which hold that Illegal or Immoral contracts will... | |
 | Frederick Hale Cooke - 1909 - 552 pages
...803; 8 LRA 497, 505; 17 Am. St. Rep. 319 (1889), public policy was defined as "that principle of the law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully...injurious to the public or against the public good." See also Greenhood on Public Policy, p. 2. By Cal. Civil Code, § 1667, which has been copied in several... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1909 - 828 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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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... 
