 | F. H. Buckley - Business & Economics - 1999 - 494 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...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | Julian Davison, Bruce Granquist - Architecture - 1999 - 1302 pages
...Cal.App. 553, 563, 102 P. 956, 960. And, finally, "* * * if there is one thing more than another, which public policy requires, it is that men of full age...competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty" of contract, and that every contract, when entered into fairly and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and... | |
 | Gordon Morris Bakken - Law - 2000 - 590 pages
...court interpreted it from precedents, particularly three that would act as guidelines. Public policy "is that men of full age and competent understanding...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and Voluntarily, shall be held sacred" (Registering... | |
 | James Willard Hurst - Law - 2001 - 242 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...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...nineteenth century. In 1875, Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls, set the tone when he proclaimed that "if there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | Clarisse Girot - Law - 2001 - 488 pages
...century.1 The most representative judicial quotation of that time is a statement by Sir George Jessel:2 'If there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | Martin Chanock - History - 2001 - 596 pages
...which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy because if there is one thing more than another public policy requires, it is that...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | Petar Sarcevic, Petar ar?evi?, Paul Volken - Law - 2001 - 284 pages
...force of law for the parties.' The same idea was graphically expressed by an English judge who said: Tf there is one thing, which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of mil age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting.'18 Party autonomy,... | |
 | Dan Friedmann, Daphne Barak-Erez - Law - 2001 - 416 pages
...Printing and Numerical Registering Co v. Sampson,14 "men of full age and competent understanding [should] have the utmost liberty of contracting, and . . ....contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily [should] be held sacred and [should] be enforced by Courts of justice". However, with the development... | |
 | J. M. Smits - Civil law - 2002 - 322 pages
...contract' is sacrosanct. Jessel provides the classical formulation of this attitude in a judgment of 1875: 'If there is one thing, which, more than another,...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
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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... 
