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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 Intercorporate Relations

Walter Chadwick Noyes - 1909 - 996 pages
...Combination not whether it ia a Monopoly. " INTERCORPORATE RELATIONS [PART v which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good." 1 A more precise definition cannot well be stated. Although the fundamental principles are unchangeable,2...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 99

1909 - 1164 pages
...32C), 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 that no subject or ciƮi/.en can lawfully do that which lias a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 21

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....
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 100

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....
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The Common Law of England: Being the 10th Ed. of Broom's ..., Volume 2

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...
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British Ruling Cases from Courts of Great Britain, Canada ..., Volume 10

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...
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The Twentieth Century Magazine, Volume 5

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...
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Corporation Law: A Comprehensive Treatise on Federal and State Legislation ...

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...
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Laws on Trusts and Monopolies: Domestic and Foreign, with Authorities

Nathan Boone Williams - 1914 - 502 pages
...maniftftiil by the legislation or fundamental law of the State. Public policy ii that principle of the law which holds that no subject or citizen can 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...
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The Encyclopedic Digest of Alabama Reports: Being a Complete ..., Volume 3

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,...
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