 ... woman be forcibly taken away, and married, she may be a witness against such her husband, in order to convict him of felony. For in this case she can with no propriety be reckoned his wife; because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the...  American Law Reports Annotated - Page 4421927Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1863 - 830 pages
...thip absence of fraud was the turning point of the case. It is a maxim of universal acceptation in the law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong ; and the defendants can be allowed to avail themselves of this defence only in violation of this important... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 832 pages
...this absence of fraud was the turntog point of the case. It is a maxim of universal acceptation in the law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong;, and the defendants can be allowed to arail themselves of this defence only in violation of this important... | |
 | Bankruptcy - 1874 - 802 pages
...his assets might be distributed equally among all his creditors. Again, it is a fundamental principle of law that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong. A creditor who, knowing his debtor to be insolvent and unable to pay all his debts, resorts to pressure... | |
 | Lancelot Feilding Everest, Edmund Strode - Estoppel - 1884 - 600 pages
...the argument, but not one of them throws a doubt on the broad proposition that where a judgment has been obtained by the fraud of a party to a suit in...to disregard a well-established rule of law that no (o) Abotdof v. Oj>i>enkeimcr, L. (p) Smith's LC (8th cd.), R. 10 Q..BD (CA) 29;-). vol. ii.,p. 784;... | |
 | Prince Edward Island. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 558 pages
...estopped from shewing that there was property in the hovel which might have been distrained. It is a maxim of law that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong. And there can be no doubt of the soundness of the principle founded on that maxim, that he who wilfully,... | |
 | Irving Browne - Evidence (Law) - 1893 - 608 pages
...it thus defrauded or overcome, or by a third party whom it was executed to defraud.1 " It is a known rule of law that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong. " ' Nee lex est justior ulla Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.' " * "Fraud maybe said to consist,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the contract : and also there is another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong; which the ravisher here would do, if, by forcibly marrying a woman, he could prevent her from being... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the contract ; and also there is another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong; which the ravisher here would do, if, by forcibly marrying a woman, he could prevent her from being... | |
 | Common law - 1904 - 412 pages
...because a main ingredient, her consent, was wanting to the contract : and also there is another maxim of law, that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong ; which the ravisher here would do, if, by forcibly marrying a woman, he could prevent her from being... | |
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