 | 1911 - 1064 σελίδες
...ago (Stevenson v. Newnham [185?] 13 CB 297, 22 LJCPNS 110, 17 Jur. 600) : "An act which does [509] 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, supra, if you eliminate all matters... | |
 | Lindley Daniel Clark - 1911 - 410 σελίδες
...the question of motive ; but the rule seems well stated in a British case, in which it was said that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because done with a bad intent.6 So if an employer brings action on the ground of enticement, he must show... | |
 | 1912 - 1652 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. Where one exercises a legal right only, the motive which actuates him is immaterial. When in legal... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1076 σελίδες
...conspiracy to do the injury suffered? . . . Baron PARKE said in Stevenson v. Newnham, 13 CB 285, " An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." . . . To determine, then, whether a "malicious act" is "wrongful," in the legal sense, and therefore... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1912 - 768 σελίδες
...it is prompted by a motive which is improper or even malicious " (o). And it is generally true that "an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent" (p). As regards the use of property, the Roman lawyers Roman 1111 • •• T,,-ii -ii doctrine held... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1912 - 456 σελίδες
...improper or even malicious.' 3 To the same effect is the opinion of Parke B. in Stevenson v. Newnham: 'An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it ia done with a bad intent.' 4 The question of ' malice ' in its popular sense forming a ground of action... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1912 - 762 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 actionable because done with a bad intent. Where one exercises a legal right only, the motive which actuates him is immaterial.... | |
 | Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield - 1913 - 798 σελίδες
...7 So. 124). " See Rideout v. Knox, 148 Mass. 308, 19 NE 390. [Spite fences] ; The truism that what does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent, is thus rendered by Judge Cooley. " Whatever one has a right to do another can have no right to complain... | |
 | 1914 - 552 σελίδες
...authority in this jurisdiction. That case has been time and again cited as authority for the truism that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because done with a bad intent. But in applying the principle the court there reasoned that because one may... | |
 | 1915 - 316 σελίδες
...desire to injure another". m"It is a truism of the law" says the Supreme Court of California, "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 persuade... | |
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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. 
