 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
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1895 - 826 pages
...— In Printing & Numerical Registering Co. v. Sampson, LR, 19 Eq. Cas. 462, 465, JESSEL, MR, says: "If there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that mon of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that... | |
 | Frederic Jesup Stimson - Labor laws and legislation - 1896 - 428 pages
...contract before it is made. Important statutes, such as the Irish Land Acts, have been passed as being against public policy, because if there is one thing...freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred and shall he enforced by courts of justice. Therefore, you have this paramount public policy to consider—that... | |
 | James Schouler - Personal property - 1896 - 830 pages
...construction, in furtherance of some assumed public policy. For, as a modern English judge has well observed, " if there is one thing which more than another public...when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be enforced by courts of justice." This paramount public policy must, therefore, be considered, that courts... | |
 | James Henry Deering - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 584 pages
...will; but is in harmony with the paramount public policy that parties shall have liberty to contract, and that their contracts, when entered into freely...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice. (Estate of Garcelon, 104 Cal. 570.) tween the petitioner and his deceased aunt, upon a contest of the... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 726 pages
...very great judge, Sir George Jessell, has said that "If there is one thing more than any other that public policy requires, it is that men of full age...competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contract, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be sacred, and shall... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Copyright - 1896 - 896 pages
...parties in good faith on both sides have agreed upon. If there is one thing more than another that public policy requires it is that men of full age...competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contractin);, and that contracts, when entered into fully and voluntarily, shall be held good and shall... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1008 pages
...public policy"; and in another case (Printing etc. Co. v. Sampson, LB 19 Eq. 465), the same jurist said: "If there is one thing which more than another public...sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice." It is not in violation of any rule or principle of law for stockholders, who own a majority of the... | |
 | 1897 - 550 pages
...for, as said by Sir G. Jesse!. Master of the Rolls, in Printing Company v. Sampson (LR 19 Eq. 465), "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... | |
 | Railroad law - 1897 - 840 pages
...conception of public policy, for, as said by SIR G. JESSEL, MR, in Printing Co. v. Sampson, LR 19 Eq. 465 : "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... | |
 | Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners - Public utilities - 1897 - 492 pages
...as said by Sir G. Jessel, Master of the Rolls, in Printing Company v. Sampson (LR 39 Eq., 465): "lf 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... | |
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