 | Charles Fisk Beach - 1898 - 760 σελίδες
...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, which may be termed, as it sometimes has been, the policy of the law. or... | |
 | Frederick Hale Cooke - 1898 - 214 σελίδες
...(1889), public policy is defined as "that principle of the law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good." See also Greenhood on Public Policy, p. 2. icy involves, as an essential... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1899
...Greenliood says: "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... | |
 | Arthur Jerome Eddy - 1901 - 1540 σελίδες
...legislative authority.' Public policy is that principle of the law which holds that no subject or citizen can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. This principle owes its existence to the very sources from which the common... | |
 | 1901
...Act of March 31, 1860, Sec. 66. Public policy is that principle of the law •which holds that no one can lawfully do that •which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. Motion to continue preliminary injunction. The facts are fully stated in... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1903
...therefore, void. "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... | |
 | John Cleland Wells, William Pope Duvall Bush, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - 1903
...dissenting opinion : No principle of law is better established than that one can not lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public morals, and the courts have never hesitated, where future illicit intercourse enters into a contract... | |
 | 1903
...he was apprehended, convicted, and executed. It is well settled that no one can lawfully contract to do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public or against the public good. Can there be a legal life insurance against the miscarriage of justice?... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - 1910
...Intox. Liquors, §45. The "public policy," of the law is that principle which holds that no subject can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the 11. public good, which may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy, in relation... | |
 | Thomas Benton Edgington - 1904 - 344 σελίδες
...policy is defined in the text-books as follows: "That principle of the law which holds that no one can lawfully do that which has a tendency to be injurious to the public, or against the public good, may be termed the policy of the law, or public policy in relation to the... | |
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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, which may be designated, as it sometimes has been,... 
