 | Thomas A. Street - 1999 - 540 σελίδες
...Parke, 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...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." 8 M.ucewiu In that case the question was whether a count was good which uwf""^"l averred that the defendant... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1910 - 768 σελίδες
...legal substitute or equivalent for the thing amiss which is one of the necessary elements of a wrong. An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent." Again, in American & English Encyclopedia of Law (2d Ed.) vol. 8, p. 695, the doctrine is thus stated... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1898 - 762 σελίδες
...Newnhami — which had been decided but a few mouths before Lumley vx. Gye was determined — that " an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent," it is impossible to conceive that he intended to put Lumley vs. Gye upon a basis which conflicted with... | |
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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. 
