 | 1854 - 372 σελίδες
...According to Lord 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...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 - 1910 - 710 σελίδες
...judged according to its own peculiar circumstances, testing it by the general rule that "no citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good." Railroad Co. v. Raihvay Co. 93 Fed. Rep. 543; Egerton v. Brownlow, 4 HL Cas. 196; Brush v. Carbondale,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 710 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John William Smith - 1868 - 594 σελίδες
...open its construction. At other times these expressions indicate a principle of law, which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency...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 - 1870 - 884 σελίδες
...whatever to do. 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...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 - 1871 - 824 σελίδες
...enforced as " 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...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 - 1918 - 760 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1897 - 1116 σελίδες
...makes this 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...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... | |
 | 1921 - 510 σελίδες
...often 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... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 538 σελίδες
...principle of the common law that nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum^ or, as Lord Truro stated it, " No subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public good, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, ' the policy of the law/ " 2 and therefore the... | |
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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... 
