| United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 σελίδες
...put the stamp of their disapprobation on every act, and pronounce void every contract the ultimate or probable tendency of which would be to sully the...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided. All persons whose interests may in any way be affected by Marshall >•. Baltimore and Ohio Kailroad... | |
| Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 σελίδες
...put the stamp of their disapprobation on every act, and pronounce void every contract the ultimate or probable tendency of which would be to sully the...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided." Marshall v. Baltimore fy Ohio JR. R. Co. 16 How. 334. Generally speaking, no illegality being disclosed... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1864 - 624 σελίδες
...put the stamp of their disapprobation on every act, and pronounce void every contract, the ultimate or probable tendency of which would be to sully the...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided." 334. In the case just cited the contract was not enforced, and it is argued that, " bribes in the shape... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - 1868 - 858 σελίδες
...Opinion by Hrar, J. of their disapprobation on every act, and pronounce void every contract, the ultimate or probable tendency of which would be to sully the purity or mislead the judgment of those to whom the high trust of legislation is confided." It was further said that all... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 788 σελίδες
...Marshall v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. 16 H. act, and pronounce void every contract the ultimate or probable tendency of which would be to sully the...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided. All persons whose interests may in any way be affected by *any public or private act of the legislature,... | |
| 1896 - 866 σελίδες
...imperatively require that courts shall condemn every act, and pronounce void every contract, the elements or probable tendency of which would be to sully the purity or mislead the judgment of those to whom official position lias been intrusted ; " and this court, in Chippewa Valley... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1881 - 848 σελίδες
...their disapprobation on every act and pronounce void every contract the ultimate [</«. immediate i] or probable tendency of which would be to sully the...have a right to urge their claims either in person or Ly agents, but in the latter case the agency must be open and acknowledged.] " Any attempts to deceive... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1885 - 844 σελίδες
...the stamp of their disapprobation on every act and pronounce void every contract the ultimate [711. immediate ':~\ or probable tendency of which would...confided." [The judgment then points out that persons iuterested in the results of pending legislation have a right to urge their claims either in person... | |
| Frederick Pollock - 1885 - 844 σελίδες
...the stamp of their disapprobation on every act ami pronounce void every contract the ultimate ['/«. immediate ?] or probable tendency of which would be...is confided. " [The judgment then points out that per.sous intere.iteil in the results of pending legislation have a right to urge their claims either... | |
| 1885 - 906 σελίδες
...put the stamp of their disapprobation on every act, and pronounce void every contract the ultimate or probable tendency of which would be to sully the...to whom the high trust of legislation is confided. All persons whose interests may in any way be affected by any public or private act of the legislature... | |
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