 It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age...  Transactions - Page 124by Maryland State Bar Association - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1168 pages
...that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void, as being against public policy, because, if there is one thing...competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contract, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 798 pages
...as said by Sir G. Jessel, Master of the Rolls, in Printing cfrc. Company v. Sampson, LR 19 Eq. 462, "if there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1226 pages
...age and competent understanding shall be allowed the utmost liberty of contracting with each other, and that their contracts, when entered into freely...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of Justice in strict accordance with their plain terms. The statute (section 946, Rev. Laws 1910), as well as... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1885 - 844 pages
...that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing...Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider—that you are not lightly to interfere with this freedom of contract" (<). "We now proceed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1156 pages
...language of Sir George Jesse], MR, In Printing Co. v. Sampson, L. R. 19 Eq. 465, in which he said: "If there is one thing which, more than another, public...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." The defendant here has not Invoked public policy, but the language cited above is none the less applicable... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1166 pages
...public policy, because If there is one thing that, more than another, public policy requires, it ia that men of full age and competent understanding shall...freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and be enforced by courts of justice. Wherefore you have this paramount public policy to consider — that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1164 pages
...not be trammeled by unnecessary restrictions. If * * * there is one thing more than any other which public policy requires, it is that men of full age...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that contracts, when entered Into freely and voluntarily, shall be held good and shall be enforced by courts... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Holland - Jurisprudence - 1886 - 402 pages
...: ' Yon are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy ; because, if there is one thing...than another public policy requires, it is that men shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1068 pages
...And in dealing with the question of public It Is well to recall what wae said by an eminent Judge : "If there Is one thing which more than another public...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." Sir George Jessel In Printing, etc., Co. v. Sampson, LR 19 Eq. 465. [2] It is also to be remembered,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1038 pages
...said by this court In the case of Couch v. Hutchinson, 2 Ala. App. 444, 57 South. 75, present term : "If there Is one thing which more than another public...that their contracts, when entered Into freely and voluiitarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courte of justice." Sir George Jessel,... | |
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