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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... "
Arkansas Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of ... - Page 63
by Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1921
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Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 2

United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - Court rules - 1829 - 758 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 legal remedy • and there can be no legal icmedy for that which is itself illegal. [53S] THIS case came up, on a certificate of the judges of...
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A Treatise on the Law of Usury ; to which are Added, the Statutes of the ...

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...
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A Selection of Leading Cases Upon Commercial Law Decided by the ..., Volume 725

Commercial law - 1847 - 554 pages
...which this reasoning has been practically implied, would be to ineur the imputation of vain parade. " There can be no civil right where there can be no...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal. " That this is true of contracts violating the laws of morality is recognised in the familiar maxim,...
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Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States ..., Volume 8

United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 536 pages
...which this reasoning has been practically applied, would be to incur the imputation of vain parade. There can be no civil right where there can be no...no legal remedy for that which is itself illegal. That this is true of contracts violating the laws of morality is recognized in the familiar maxim,...
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A Collection of Overruled, Denied, and Doubted Decisions and Dicta, Both ...

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...
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A Full and Arranged Digest of the Decisions in Common Law, Equity ..., Volume 1

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,...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 245

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,...
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Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 18

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 724 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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 20

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...
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The Albany Law Journal: A Monthly Record of the Law and the Lawyers, Volume 28

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...
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