 It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age...  Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeal - Page 518by Ontario. Court of Appeal, James Stewart Tupper, Richard Scougall Cassels - 1890Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 808 pages
...the Court, which says : " If there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1883 - 658 pages
...462 : " If there is one thing which, more than another, public policy requires, it is that contracts shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." » PARDEE, J. In March, 1876, AG Bell became the patentee of the magnetic telephone, a mechanical device... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1921 - 822 pages
...at p. 465, said : " . . . if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall...sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of Justice." The state of the law in England has been changed through the efforts of the judges and also through... | |
 | 1921 - 510 pages
...contrary. "If there is one thing," he said, "which more than another, public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall...contracting, and that their contracts, when entered freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of Justice. Therefore... | |
 | 1875 - 682 pages
...public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider, that you are not lightly to interfere... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1876 - 694 pages
...public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall...entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held (a) Cp. Da Costa v. Jones, Cowp. withstanding it did not appear that 729. Wager on sex of third person... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1876 - 692 pages
...public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall...contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, ehall be held (a) Cp. Da, Cotta v. Jones, Cowp. withstanding it did not appear that 729. Wager on sex... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1878 - 734 pages
...public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the upmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts,...sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere... | |
 | 1926 - 1144 pages
...public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore we have this paramount public policy to considerthat we are not likely to interfere with... | |
 | 1897 - 2078 pages
...understanding shall hnve the utmost liberty of contracting. ai:d that their contracts, when entend itito freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore you hnve this paramount public policy to consider,— that you are not lightly to interfere... | |
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