 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 illegal act.  The Ohio Nisi Prius Reports - Side 515av Ohio. Courts - 1905Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | David Johnston, Reinhard Zimmermann - 2002 - 802 sider
...that '[i[t is, of course, artificial to think that anyone would be dissuaded by the primary rule [that no court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action on an illegal act] from entering into a proposed fraud, if only because such a person would be unlikely... | |
 | Peter Alldridge - 2003 - 325 sider
...offences that duress provides a defence, but all statutes are read as including such a defence. 15 'No court will lend its aid to a man who founds his...cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act.' Lord Mansfield CJ in Holman v Johnson (1775) 1 Cowp 342, 343; 98 ER 1120, 1121 (KB). The Plaintiff... | |
 | James Oldham - 2004 - 454 sider
...MMSS I: 539, a Cowp. 737 (1778). latter point is Hobuan v. John50n,75 in which Mansfield stated that "no court will lend its aid to a man who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or illegal act," even though "the objection, that a contract is immoral or illegal . . . sounds at all... | |
 | John Michael Bennett - 2006 - 342 sider
...1881. As to the passengers, it was a principle of public policy that the court not assist a person "who founds his cause of action upon an immoral or an illegal act".27 The plaintiff therefore had no locus standi. For Higinbotham, on the other hand, the case afforded... | |
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