 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1056 pages
...public policy;" and in another case (Printing, etc., Co. v. Sampson, LR 19 Eq. 465), the same jurist said: " If there is one thing which more than another...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." It is not in violation of any rule or principle of law for stockholders, who own a majority of the... | |
 | Jeremiah Smith - Corporation law - 1902 - 768 pages
...public policy " ; and in another case (Printing, etc., Co. v. Sampson, LR 19 Eq. 465), the same jurist said: "If there is one thing which more than another...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." It is not in violation of any rule or principle of law for stockholders, who own a majority of the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 630 pages
...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...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 with... | |
 | Francis Marion Burdick - Commercial law - 1902 - 338 pages
...this tendency, left on record this statement, which should be heeded by every judicial tribunal : " If there is one thing which, more than another, public...voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by the courts. Therefore you have this paramount public policy to consider, that you are not lightly to... | |
 | Bruce Wyman - Restraint of trade - 1903 - 170 pages
...public policy " ; and in another case (Printing, etc., Co. v. Sampson, LE 19 Eq. 465), the same jurist said: "If there is one thing which more than another...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." It is not in violation of any rule or principle of law for stockholders, who own a majority of the... | |
 | Samuel Williston - Contracts - 1903 - 752 pages
...case of the Printing and Numerical Registering Co. v. Sampson, Law Rep. 19 Eq. 462, 465, says this: "If there is one thing which more than another public...sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore, y011 have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere... | |
 | Samuel Williston - Contracts - 1903 - 778 pages
...of the Printing and Numerical Registering Co. v. Sampson, Law Rep. 19 Eq. 462, 465, says this: "^Ij there is one thing which more than another public...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... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Insurance - Insurance - 1903 - 992 pages
...requires, it is that men of full age and of competent understanding shall have the utmost lil>erty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered...freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall lie enforced by the courts of justice. Therefore, you havo this paramount public policy to consider... | |
 | Francis Beaufort Palmer - Corporation law - 1904 - 1330 pages
...the law allows him to take." Per Lord Macnaghten, Salomon v. Salomon $• Co., (1897) A. 0. 52. " And if there is one thing which more than another public...sacred, and shall be enforced by Courts of justice." Per Jessel, ME, Printing, fyc. Co. v. Samson, 19 Eq. 465. Nor should the liquidator, where there is... | |
 | Samuel Williston - Contracts - 1904 - 368 pages
...case of the Printing and Numerical Registering Co. ». Sampson, Law Rep. 19 Eq. 462, 465, says this: "If there is one thing which more than another public...sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore, yon have this paramount public policy to consider — that you are not lightly to interfere... | |
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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... 
