 ... insuring had agreed to pay a sum of money, year by year, upon condition that, in the event of his committing a capital felony, and being tried, convicted, and executed for that felony, his assignees shall receive a certain sum of money; is it possible...  Lawyers' Reports Annotated - Sivu 3931903Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - 1833 - 666 sivua
...assignees shall receive a certain sum of money — is it possible that such a contract could be sustained ? Is it not void upon the plainest principles of public...interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connexions. Now, if a policy of that description, with such a form of condition * Lord Radnor. 1S30.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Richard Bligh - 1833 - 670 sivua
...assignees shall receive a certain sum of money — is it possible that such a contract could be sustained ? Is it not void upon the plainest principles of public...interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connexions. Now, if a policy of that description, with such a form of condition 1830. inserted in it... | |
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners, Edwin Chadwick - 1843 - 296 sivua
...delivering the judgment of the house, said — " Is it possible that such a contract could be sustained ? Is it not void upon the plainest principles of public...interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connexions ? Now, if a policy of that description, with such a form of condition inserted in it in... | |
 | George Morley Dowdeswell - 1846 - 192 sivua
...such a case, would render the instrument void on grounds of public policy, " as taking away one of the restraints operating on the minds of men against the commission of crimes, viz. the interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connections " (c), and the law will... | |
 | Charles John Bunyon - 1854 - 426 sivua
...a policy in any such case would, it is said, be contrary to sound policy, as taking away one of the restraints operating on the minds of men against the commission of crimes, by the interest which they have in the welfare and prosperity of their connections ; nay, more, it... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 714 sivua
...held that there could be no recovery. The grounds of the decision were, that to allow a recovery would "take away one of those restraints operating on the minds of men against the commission of crime." It should be borne in mind that forfeitures for the commission of crime were enforced in England... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1869 - 734 sivua
...as taking away one of the restraints operating on the minds of men against the commission of crime, namely, the interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connections, and effect could not be given to it on an event which, if expressed iu terms, would have rendered the... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - 1880 - 84 sivua
...assignees shall receive a certain sum of money — is it possible that such a contract would be sustained ? Is it not void upon the plainest principles of public...interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connexions. Now if a pol. of that description, with such a form of condition inserted in it in express... | |
 | 1901 - 2042 sivua
...assignees shall receive a certain sum of money; is it possible that such a contract could be sustained? Is it not void upon the plainest principles of public...available) take away one of those restraints operating on thp minds of men against the commission of crimes, namely, the interest we have in the welfare and... | |
 | Charles Crawley - 1882 - 390 sivua
...a certain sum of money—is it possible that such a contract could be sustained ? Is it not void on the plainest principles of public policy ? Would not...the minds of men against the commission of crimes, viz., the interest we have in the welfare and prosperity of our connections " ? Ibid, per Lyndhurst,... | |
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