| North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...which says : " If there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
| 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
...said : " . . . if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have...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... | |
| Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...contrary. "If there is one thing," he said, "which more than another, public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have...contracting, and that their contracts, when entered freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by Courts of Justice. Therefore... | |
| Law - 1875 - 682 pages
...policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have...lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract" Having gone on to shortly state the principle under discussion, and the extent to which it has been... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1876 - 694 pages
...policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have...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... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1876 - 692 pages
...policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have...contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, ehall be held (a) Cp. Da, Cotta v. Jones, Cowp. withstanding it did not appear that 729. Wager on sex... | |
| Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1878 - 734 pages
...public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the upmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts,...lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract " (a). "We now proceed to tho several heads of the subject. A. First, as to matters concerning the... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1144 pages
...policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires, it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have...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... | |
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