 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 Law Quarterly Review - Page 409edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | International law - 1854 - 492 pages
...mischief occurring in a particular instance, but to the general tendency of the disposition." Again, " There no doubt will be occasionally difficulty in...case is liable to the application of the principle (of public policy) ; but there is the same difficulty in regard to the application of many other rules... | |
 | Law - 1854 - 372 pages
...Truro (18 Jur. 100), " 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, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law, or public policy in relation... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 710 pages
...contract in question was clearly against the public policy of this State, — that is, that it had a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, — or if it were in violation of a statute or some rule of the common law, it is true that the courts... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 644 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 s. 22, Act... | |
 | John William Smith - Conflict of laws - 1868 - 594 pages
...construction. At other times these expressions indicate a 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 (i)• If this be understood as the public good, recognised and protected by the most general maxims... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 884 pages
...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... | |
 | John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 824 pages
...opposed to sound or public policy/' this is in accordance with the principle of law 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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 760 pages
...public policy is that principle of law which holds that no person can lawfully do Opinion I'cr Curiam. that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good, which it may be designated, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law or public policy in relation... | |
 | Law - 1897 - 1116 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... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...approved Lord Brogham's definition of public policy as the principle which declares that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public welfare. This principle it has been said, may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in... | |
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