 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...  The Canadian Law Times - Page 2501885Full view - About this book
 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily,...sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice." " The remedy intended to be accomplished by the act of Congress was to shield against the danger of... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - Commerce - 1921 - 822 pages
...case of Printing and Numerical Registering- Co. vs. Sampson, LR,19, Eq.462, at p. 465, said : " . . . if there is one thing which more than another public...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... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1876 - 694 pages
...Master of the Eolls in a very late case : — "It must not be forgotten that you are not to extent! arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1144 pages
...George Jessel, in Printing Co. v. Sampson, LR 19 Eq. Cas., 462 : 'It must not be forgotten that we are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say...shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore we have this paramount public policy to considerthat we are not likely to interfere with this freedom... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 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 with this freedom... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1881 - 848 pages
...that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, ami that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall lie enforced by courts of justice. Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider —... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1226 pages
...age and competent understanding shall be allowed the utmost liberty of contracting with each other, and that their contracts, when entered into freely...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of Justice in strict accordance with their plain terms. The statute (section 946, Rev. Laws 1910), as well as... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 798 pages
...that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily...sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice." The remedy intended to be accomplished by the act of Congress was to shield against the danger of contract... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1156 pages
...language of Sir George Jesse], MR, In Printing Co. v. Sampson, L. R. 19 Eq. 465, in which he said: "If there is one thing which, more than another, public...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." The defendant here has not Invoked public policy, but the language cited above is none the less applicable... | |
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