 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, George Wilson - 1799 - 442 sidor
...why the common law fays fuch contracts are void, is for the public good. Tmtjball not flipulattjor iniquity. All writers upon our law agree in this, no polluted hand (hall touch the pure fountains of juitice. Whoever ua party to an unlawful contract, if he hath once... | |
 | Robert Joseph Pothier - 1806 - 728 sidor
...why the common law fays fuch contracts are void is for the public good — you (hall riot ftipulate for iniquity. All writers upon our law agree in this, no- polluted hand Jrtall touch the pure fountain of juftice." — The whole of the ju'd'grftent, from which thefe extracts... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1916 - 848 sidor
...transactions in their tme light." And again, "this is a contract to tempt a man to transgress the law to do that which is injurious to the community. It...for iniquity. All writers upon our law agree in this — 'that no polluted hand shall touch the pure fountains of justice.' " See, also, Paxton v. Popham,... | |
 | Samuel Comyn - 1824 - 680 sidor
...and bring offenders of this sort to justice. This is a contract to tempt a man to transgress the law, to do that which is injurious to the community : it...iniquity. All writers upon our law agree in this, that no polluted hand shall touch the pure fountains of justice. Whoever is a party to an unlawful... | |
 | Daniel Davis - 1828 - 522 sidor
...contrary is said to be void by the common law, the civil law, the moral law, and all laws whatever. " You shall not stipulate for iniquity." All writers upon our law agree, that a polluted hand shall not touch the pure fountains of justice.* And so chaste is the English law... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange - 1830 - 464 sidor
...Dig. 183. occasion ; — " This (said he) is a contract to tempt a man " to transgress the law ; — to do that which is injurious to " the community ;...this ; " — no polluted hand shall touch the pure fountain of "justice. — Procul o! procul estc pro/Jwi /" (') — with more to the same effect ; for... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 sidor
...shew the transactions in their true light. This is a contract to tempt a man to transgress the law ; to do that which is injurious to the community : it...agree in this; no polluted hand shall touch the pure fountain of justice." The benefit of the public, not the advantage of the defendant, is the principle... | |
 | John William Smith - 1841 - 744 sidor
...5. Code, lib. 4. tit. 7. to the same point. This is a contract to tempt a man to transgress the law, to do that which is injurious to the community : it...polluted hand shall touch the pure fountains of justice. Whoever is a party to an unlawful contract, if he hath once paid the money stipulated to be paid in... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 sidor
...transactions in their true light." And again, " This is a contract to tempt a man to transgress the law, to do that which is injurious to the community; it...polluted hand shall touch the pure fountains of justice " (e). It is, then, a general rule, that an agreement cannot be made the siibject of an action if it... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1851 - 570 sidor
...if it be either contra bonos mores, or forbidden by the law. Lord Kenyon, CJ, 6 Term fi. 1C. " 'J he reason why the common law says such contracts are...polluted hand shall touch the pure fountains of justice." Wilmot, CJ, 2 Wils. 341, 350. TURPITUDO. Lat. [from turpis, qv] Baseness ; infamy ; immorality ; turpitude.... | |
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This is a contract to tempt a man to transgress the law ; to do that which is injurious to the community; it is void by the common law ; and the reason why the common law says such contracts are void is for the public good. You shall not stipulate for... 
