| Frederick Pollock - Contracts - 1889 - 816 pages
...neutral between the parties. The matter is thus put by Lord Mansfield : "The objection, tbat a coctract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant,...which the defendant has the advantage of contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may say no. The principle of public... | |
| Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1891 - 738 pages
...defence to be collected from this plea is thus opened by Lord Mansfield in Holman v. Johnson, Cowp. 343. The objection that a contract is immoral or illegal...which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may so say. The principle of public... | |
| Thomas Brett - English law - 1891 - 660 pages
...he was himself a party. " The objection that a contract is immoral or illegal," said Lord Mansfield, "as between plaintiff and defendant, sounds at all...which the defendant has the advantage of contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may say so. The principle of public... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1042 pages
...turpitude of the plaintiff. "The objection," said Lord Mansfield in Holman v. Johnson, Cowp. 343, " that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff...which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, — by accident, if I may so say. The principle... | |
| Appellate courts - 1903 - 880 pages
...mouth of Hie defendant. It is not for his sake that the objection is ever allowed; but it is founded on general principles of policy, which the defendant has the advantage of. contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may say so. The principle of public... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 640 pages
...whenever it suits their purpose. As was said by Lord MANSFIELD, in Hollman v. Johnson, 1 Cowp. 341, 345: "The objection, that a contract is immoral or illegal...which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff — by accident, if I may say so. The principle of... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 922 pages
...very ill in the mouth of the defendant. It is not for his sake, however, that the objection is even allowed ; but it is founded in general principles...which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plain tiff — by accident, if I may so say. The principle... | |
| William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 832 pages
...and an immoral purpose, for, as Lord Mansfield (Holman v. Johnson, Covvp. 341, 343) has said: "While the objection that a contract is immoral or illegal...which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may say so. The principle of public... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1002 pages
...objection," said Lord Mansfield in Holninn ». Johnson, Cowp. 343, "that a contract is immoral or illeg.-tl. as between plaintiff and defendant, sounds at all...which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff — by accident, if I may so say. The principle of... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1008 pages
...Mansfield in Holmnn v. Johnson, Cowp. 343, "that a contract is immoral or illegal, as between plaintiff nnd defendant, sounds at all times very ill in the mouth...general principles of policy, which the defendant lias the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff — by accident,... | |
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