 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1907 - 1036 σελίδες
...motives make a bad act worse, but they cannot make that a wrong which in its own essence is lawful." "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent."** "Any trans*» Goodlander Mill Co. v. Standard Oil Co., 63 Fed. 400, 11 CC A. 253. " Conway T. Lewlston,... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1907 - 782 σελίδες
...in Allen v. flood is thus summed up by Lord Macnaghten in Qidnn v. Leathern, [1901] AC, 495, 509 : " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent " (cf. p. 533, per Lord Lindley). In the latter case it was held that violation of a legal right committed... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1907 - 1028 σελίδες
...motives make a bad act worse, but they cannot make that a wrong which in its own essence is lawful." "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be ac tionable because it is done with a bad intent."" "Any trans »» Goodlander Mill Co. v. Stand- «... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1908 - 784 σελίδες
...improper or even malicious "(/.•). And it is generally true that "an act which does not amount to u legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent " (/). Roman As regards the use of property, the lloman lawyers of"ani- held that " animus vicino nocendi... | |
 | John Frederic Clerk, William Harry Barber Lindsell, Alfred Taylour Hunter - 1908 - 1216 σελίδες
...decision in Corporation of Bradford v. Pickles that principle can any longer be regarded as good law. " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be Malicious actionable because it is done with a bad intent" (d). There is ^ of pro " no such thing as... | |
 | Harry Dwight Nims - 1909 - 640 σελίδες
...threat at all. He simply warned others against certain acts." Lord MacNaghten says in the same case, " an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. That, in my opinion, is the sum and substance of Allen v. Flood;"30 and Lord Lindley says that the... | |
 | 1910 - 872 σελίδες
...bad motive or an evil purpose creates no cause of action founded upon the exercise of a legal right. "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." Boyson v. Thorn, 98 Cal. 578, 33 Pac. 492, 21 LRA 233; Cooley on Torts, pp. 1503, 1505. Finally, the... | |
 | George Gorham Groat - 1911 - 432 σελίδες
...Justice Beatty, is found also in other cases. In a case decided by his own court it took the form, " an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." In the English case it was stated (Allen v. Flood), "An act lawful in itself is not converted by a... | |
 | 1926 - 1262 σελίδες
...words of Parke, B., in Stevenson v. Newnham (1853) 13 CB 285, 297, 138 Eng. Reprint, 1208 — Exch. : "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." And then he explains that what Allen v. Flood had done was to sweep away the erroneous proposition... | |
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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. 
