 | Frederick Pollock - 1901 - 716 σελίδες
...same effect Lord (n) Lord Watson, Mayor of Brad- Maenaghten at p. 601. ford v. I'ickles [1895] AC 587, which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent" (o). As regards the use of property, the Roman lawyers Roman held that " animus vicino nocendi" did... | |
 | 1903 - 828 σελίδες
...Macnaghtan said, " The sum ol Allen v. Flood is what was said by Parke B. in Stevenson v. Newnham, ' An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be 1 National Protective Ass'n v. Cummings, supra, at 321. 2 Cf. Lord Bramwell in Mogul Appeal [1892]... | |
 | James Newton Fiero - 1903 - 922 σελίδες
...or tortious act. Cooley, on p. 830, cites Stevenson v. Newriham, 13 OB 285, 297, as holding that, " an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it was done with a bad intent," and Jenkins v. Fowler, 21 Pa. St. 308 (310), " That any transaction which... | |
 | 1904 - 694 σελίδες
...Boenig, 48 Neb. 80. 8 Baron Parke's oft-quoted dictum (Stevenson v. Newnham, 13 C. B 285, 297) : " An act which does not amount to a legal injury, cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent " was given in a similar case. The defendant was sued for maliciously distraining for more rent than... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1904 - 1128 σελίδες
...speaking of Allen v. Flood, 67 LJQB 119, stated that its headnote might well have run in these words : "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent," and in this case last referred to it is said, that "it is a violation of legal right to interfere with... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - 1904 - 1098 σελίδες
...exceptionally strong court, nearly half a century ago (Stevenson v.Ne10man [1853], 13 CB 297):'-4a act "hich does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done "ith a bad intent.' That, in my opinion, is the sum and substance of Allen v. Flood ( [1898] AC 1),... | |
 | 1905 - 1008 σελίδες
...justice. Judges are not very fit for them, and juries are very unfit." It is a truism of the law that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent ; that what one has a right to do another cannot complain of. It is conceded that one may lawfully... | |
 | Ratanlal Ranchhoddas, Dhirajlal Keshavlal Thakore - 1905 - 622 σελίδες
...person whose right is infringed, whether the motive which prompted it be good, bad, or indifferent." An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent.1 It is no defence to an action in tort for the wrong-doer to plead that he did not intend to... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Trade Disputes and Trade Combinations - 1906 - 154 σελίδες
...giving the judgment of an exceptionally strong Court nearly half a century ago (Stevenson v. Newnham). ' An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. ' That , in his opinion, was the sum and substance of Allen v. Flood, if all matters of passing interest... | |
 | Thomas Atkins Street - 1906 - 542 σελίδες
...B., afterwards Lord Wensleydale, in giving the judgment of an exceptionally strong court, said : " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent."8 Malice wm In that case the question was whether a count was good which u°wfuinactr averred... | |
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It is a truism of the law that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent; that what one has a right to do another cannot complain of. 
