 | Jeremiah W. Blydenburgh - Interest - 1844 - 364 pages
...laws of a country ; how can they then become auxiliary to the consummation of violating the laws 1 There can be no civil right where there can be no...and there can be no legal remedy for that which is in itself illegal. The action is apparently founded on a contract to disobey the law. The defence set... | |
 | Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...all the instances and cases in which this reasoning has been practically implied, would be to ineur the imputation of vain parade. " There can be no civil...true of contracts violating the laws of morality is recognised in the familiar maxim, ' ex turpi causa non oritur aclio,'1 as has been exemplified in some... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 536 pages
...laws * of a country ; how can they, then, become auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law ? To enumerate here all the instances and cases in which...for immoral purposes. (Cited and admitted in 1 B. & P. 340, and Esp. N. P. 13.) In the case of Aubert v. Maze, 2 B. & P. 374, it is expressly affirmed... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Law reports, digests, etc - 1856 - 576 pages
...necessarily otherwise ; for then the actual receipt is generally necessary to consummate the offense. There can be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal ; for no court of justice can in its nature be made the handmaid of iniquity. And there is no distinction... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...into effect the laws of a country, and they cannot become auxiliary to the violation of those laws. There can be no civil right where there can be no...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal. Son* of the United States v. Owens, 2 Peters, 538. 23. The Branch Bank of the United States, at Lexington,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 710 pages
...the wrongdoer from the ordinary consequences of a forbidden act, but the general rule is stated that there can be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal, and that when the statute is silent and contains nothing from which the contrary can be properly inferred,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 726 pages
...contracts are void in law upon general principles; "that there can be no civil right where there is no legal remedy, and there can be no legal remedy for that which is illegal." Chief Justice Taney, in the Maryland circuit, as * 2 Peters, 627. Opinion of the court. late... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 700 pages
...then become auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law. * * * There can be no civil rigtit where there can be no legal remedy; and there can...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal." If the argument of the plaintiff were true, then all illegal contracts which assume the form of notarial... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...v. Owens, 2 Pet. 527. "There can be no civil right," said Mr. Justice Johnson, in that case, " when there can be no legal remedy ; and there can be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal." A distinction is made between acts which are mala in ge, which are generally regarded as absolutely... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 598 pages
...into effect the laws of a country, and they can not become auxiliary to the violation of those laws. There can be no civil right where there can be no legal remedy ; and there can bo no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal. Bank of the United States v. Owens et al, 2 Pet.... | |
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No court of justice can in its nature be made the handmaid of iniquity. Courts are instituted to carry into effect the laws of the country. How can they become auxiliary to the consummation of violations of law? There can be no civil right where there... 
