 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 520 pages
...illegal, is not allowed for the sake of the defendant. It is founded on general principles of policy. No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon nn immoral or an illegal act : ex dolo malo non orítur nctio. If, from the plaintiff's own stating,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 668 pages
...to cases of this description is, that the court will not interfere to grant relief to either party. No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his action upon an illegal contract. It says to him that, even though he suffer injustice at the hands... | |
 | George Frederick Wharton - Legal maxims - 1865 - 296 pages
...real justice, as between himself and the plaintiff ; by accident, as it were. The principle of public policy is this : — " Ex dolo malo non oritur actio."...immoral or an illegal act. If,. from the plaintiff's own statement or otherwise, the cause of action appears to arise ex turpa causa, or the transgression of... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1865 - 666 pages
...public policy ia this ; tx dolo nialo non oritur aclio. No Court will lend its aid to a man who soundt his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal...plaintiff's own stating or otherwise, the cause of action appears to arise ex turpl causa, or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there the... | |
 | North-Western Provinces, India - Law reports, digests, etc - 1865 - 614 pages
...advances were made on their being entered into ;" and the Court accordingly, on the principle that "no Court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action on an illegal act," disallowed the plaintiff's entire claim, including the sum advanced by him. This... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 716 pages
...founded on that illegal transaction. In Hoi man v. Johnson, 1 Cowp. 341, 343, lord Mansfield says : " No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his action upon an immoral or illegal act." In the case of Wheeler v. Russell, 17 Mass. 258, the chief... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1867 - 610 pages
...plaintiff, by accident, if I may so say. The principle of public policy is this : tx dolo mala non - orittir actio. No court will lend its aid to a man who founds...plaintiff's own stating, or otherwise, the cause of action appears to arise ex turpi causa, or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there, the... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1869 - 646 pages
...public policy is this ; ex dolo malo non aritw actio. No Court will lend its aid to a man who sounds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal...plaintiff's own stating or otherwise, the cause of action appears to arise ex turpi causa, or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there the... | |
 | Charles W. Langdon - Constables - 1870 - 858 pages
...him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may say so. The principle of public policy is this, ex <lolo malo non oritur actio. No court will lend its aid...plaintiff's own stating or otherwise, the cause of action appears to arise, ex turpi causa, or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there the... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...which, in such cases, courts proceed. He said: "The principle of public policy ia this : 'ex dolo mala non oritur actio. No court will lend its aid to a...action upon an immoral or an illegal act. If from the plaintiffs own stating, or otherwise, the cause of action appear to arise ex turpi causa, or the transgression... | |
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The principle of public policy is this; ex dolo malo non oritur actio. No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act. 
