 No one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found any claim upon his own iniquity, or to acquire property by his own crime.  Albany Law Journal - Page 3481890Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1368 pages
...laws as well as contracts. Among these are: 'No one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found...acquire property by his own crime. These maxims are adopted by public policy, and have their foundation in universal law administered in all civilized... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1116 pages
...in its operation by the general fundamental maxims of the common law, that no one shall be permitted to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found any...iniquity, or to acquire property by his own crime. Earl, J., delivering the opinion of the court, said : "Here there was no certainty that this murderer... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1270 pages
...fraud, or to take <£=>For other cues see same topic & KEY-NUMBER In all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes advantage of his own wrong, or to found any claim...iniquity or to acquire property by his own crime. Cleaver v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, 1 Queen's Bench, 147, 156. But the defendants insist... | |
 | Austin Wakeman Scott - Trusts and trustees - 1919 - 858 pages
...general, fundamental maxims of the common law. No one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found...statutes. They were applied in the decision of the case of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Armstrong, 117 US 591. There it was held that the person... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1052 pages
...general fundamental maxims of the common law. No one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found...countries, and have nowhere been superseded by statutes." In Levy v. Kansas City, 168 Fed. 524, 93 CCA 523, 22 LRA (NS) 862, a case in the Circuit Court of Appeals... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1919 - 910 pages
...secure for themselves. The policy of our law that no oue will be permitted to profit by his own fraud or to take advantage of his own wrong or to found any claim upon his own iniquity or to acquire any property by his own crime was clearly expressed in Riygs v. Palmer (115 NY 506). We, therefore,... | |
 | William Mark McKinney - Law - 1915 - 1390 pages
...ancestor whom he had murdered.12 And by applying the common law maxim that no one shall be permitted to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found any...iniquity, or to acquire property by his own crime, courts have refused to permit one to inherit who by his own criminal act caused the death of his intestate.18... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1168 pages
...1917D, 1181. No one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage ••5 li. ed. of his own wrong, or to found any claim upon his own...acquire property by his own crime. These maxims are adopted by public policy, and have their foundation in universal law administered in all civilized... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 520 pages
...fundamental maxims of the common law: No one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or take any advantage of his own wrong, or to found any claim...countries and have 'nowhere been superseded by statutes." The opinion then refers to the Armstrong case supra, as applying these maxims and undoubtedly it also... | |
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