 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 684 pages
...circumstance that it contains an averment that the distress for too much rent was maliciously made. An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. But though it would be sufficient for us to decide this point,... | |
 | Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1855 - 884 pages
...for the rent was "maliciously" made. This was deemed an immaterial circumstance ; the court saying that an act which does not amount to a legal injury, cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. Newnham v. Stevenson fyc. 3 Eng. Law & Eq. 512; Stevetisou v.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, William Newland Welsby, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Gordon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 948 pages
...distrained for more rent than was really due ; and it was nevertheless held that the count was bad, for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad (ct) Before Coleridge, J., Muult, Crowdcr, J. J., Wiffhlman, J., Erie,... | |
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1861 - 840 pages
...damage, no cause of action (;«); nor does it make any difference that it was done "maliciously,"' for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable, because it is done with a bad intent (it). In Walter v. Rumbal, Ld. Raym. 53, it was held, that notice... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1058 pages
...been abundantly shown to be justified by the authorities, even if it were not in itself a mere truism. 'An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent.' 'Any transaction which would be lawful and proper if the parties... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1874 - 880 pages
...prejudiced because the invasion of his right was unintentional.7 We may add that whilst, on the one hand, "an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done 1 Bac. Max., reg. 15 ; D. 47 ; 10, 18, { 3 : Wood. Inst. 307 ; R. r. Oneby, 2 Ld.... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Torts - 1876 - 832 pages
...landlord for distraining for more rent than is really due to allege it to have been done maliciously, for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent(r). 734 Repeated distresses for the same rent. — A landlord... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...legal right to establish a new business, and his motives in doing so are not to be enquired into.39 "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. "4° This remark was made in a case where a landlord was charged... | |
 | John Townshend - Libel and slander - 1877 - 838 pages
...perhaps, and yet actionable." (Jervis, Ch. J., Rogers v. Macnamara, 14 CB 37 ; ante, p. 134, note 2. "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it U done with a bad intent." (14 Albany Law Journal, 61, article copied from Southern Law... | |
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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. 
