 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - 1920 - 1544 sider
...some doubt as to what effect the usury should be deemed to have on the contract. On the principle that there can be no civil right where there can be no legal remedy, and that there can be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal, a contract by a bank at a usurious... | |
 | 1923 - 1230 sider
...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 can be no legal remedy, and there can be no legal remedy for that1 which is itself illegal.' And again the same august tribunal, in Coppell v. Hall, 7 Wall. 542,... | |
 | 1923 - 1226 sider
...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 can be no legal remedy, and there сип be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal.' And again the ваше august tribunal,... | |
 | 1924 - 938 sider
...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 can be no legal remedy, and there can be no Ingal remedy for that which is itself illegal.' And again the same august tribunal, in Coppel v. Hall,... | |
 | 1891 - 1920 sider
..."The distinction between ma him in $e and -ntnlum. prohibitum has long since been exploded, and, 'as there can be no civil right where there can be no...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal,' (Hank v. Owens, 2 Pet. 527.) it is clear that con tracts in direct violation of statutes expressly... | |
 | 1801 - 518 sider
...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 can be no...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal." The same principles are recognized in Coppell v. Hall, 7 Wall. 558. Justice Swayne, commenting on the... | |
 | 1902 - 546 sider
...without relying upon an illegal contract he cannot recover. * * » There can lie no civil right, whore there can be no legal remedy, and there can be no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal. * * * It ¡s true that a statute containing a prohibition and a penalty makes theact which it punishes... | |
 | United States. General Accounting Office - 1954 - 938 sider
...the 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...where there can be no legal remedy ; and there can b* no legal remedy for that which is itself Illegal. None of the cases cited in your supplemental memorandum... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1882 - 786 sider
...Pul. 371; Bank of United States v. Owens, 2 Peters, 539. In the latter case it is said by JOHNSON, J.: "There can be no civil right where there can be no...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal." In 7 Wait's Actions and Defences, p. 04, it is said: "The rule is now well established that no agreement... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1906 - 858 sider
...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 can be no...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal." And again the same august tribunal, in Coppel v. Hall, 7 Wall. 542, says: "Whenever the illegality... | |
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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... 
