 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...Legislators should act with a single eye to the true interest of the whole people, and courts of justice ean give no countenance to the use of means which may...the same effect of quickening the perceptions and warming the zeal of influential or " careless " members in favor of his bill. The use of such means... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 624 pages
...legislation is confided." 334. In the case just cited the contract was not enforced, and it is argued that, " bribes in the shape of high contingent compensation,...improper means and the exercise of undue influence." In the case the Court cites, Fuller v. Dame, 18 Pick. 472; Hatzfield v. Gulden, 7 AVatts 162- ; Clippinger... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Consideration (Law) - 1866 - 830 pages
...his services, in case of the passage of the law. Mr. justice Grier, in delivering his opinion, said: "Influences secretly urged under false and covert...the exercise ยก of undue influence. Their necessary con- j sequence is, the demoralization of the agent who covenants for them ; he is soon brought to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 820 pages
...contaminate, by improper influences, the integrity of our social or political institutions." And again: "Bribes in the shape of high contingent compensation...demoralization of the agent who covenants for them." That it is not necessary for the element of sinister or personal influence to be contemplated by the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 788 pages
...operation undue influences of any kind, have all the injurious effects of a direct fraud on the public. Legislators should act with a single eye to the true-...the same effect of quickening the perceptions and warming the zeal of influential or " careless " members in favor of his bill. The use of such means... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 572 pages
...the contract was void as against public policy. The court, speaking through Mr. Justice Grier, said : "Bribes in the shape of high contingent compensation...believe that any means which will produce so beneficial n result to himself are ' proper means; ' and that a share of these profits may have the same effect... | |
 | Law - 1881 - 572 pages
...the contract was void as against public policy. The court, speaking through Mr. Justice Grler, said : "Bribes in the shape of high contingent compensation must necessarily lead to the use of improper menus and the exercise of undue influence. Their necessary consequence is the demoralization of the... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 678 pages
...have all the injurious effects of a direct fraud on the public. The State T. Johnson, Administrator. "Influences secretly urged under false and covert...covenants for them; he is soon brought to believe that any menu.- which will produce so beneficial a result to himself are 'proper means;' and that a share of... | |
 | George Washington Field - Ultra vires - 1881 - 620 pages
...How., 314, Mr. Justice GRIEK observed: "Influences secretly urged under false and covert pretenses must necessarily operate deleteriously on legislative...the same effect of quickening the perceptions and warming the zeal of influential or ' careless ' members in favor of his bill. The use of such means... | |
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Bribes, in the shape of high contingent compensation, must necessarily lead to the use of improper means and the exercise of undue influence. Their necessary consequence is the demoralization of the agent who covenants for them; he is soon brought to... 
