 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, George Wilson - 1799 - 434 pages
...All writers upon our law agree in this, no polluted hand ftiall touch the pure fountains of juftice. Whoever is a party to an unlawful contract, if he hath once paid the money ftipulated to be paid in purfuance thereof, he {hall not have the help of a court to fetch it back... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, George Wilson - 1799 - 442 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...common law. and the reason why the common law says such contracts are void is for the public good. You shall not stipulate 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 pages
...common law; and the reason why the common law says such contracts are void, is for the public good. You shall not stipulate for 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 pages
...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 pages
...law ; and the " reason why the common law says such contracts are " void, is, for the public good. You shall not stipulate " for iniquity. All writers...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 pages
...common law, and the reason why the common law says such contracts are void is for the public good : you shall not stipulate for iniquity. All writers...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 pages
...common law ; and the reason why the common law says such contracts are void, is for the public good. You shall not stipulate for iniquity. All writers...money stipulated to be paid in pursuance thereof, ho shall not have the help of a court to fetch it back again, you shall not have a right of action... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 pages
...common law, and the reason why the common law says such contracts are void, is for the public good : you shall not stipulate for iniquity. All writers...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... | |
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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... 
